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How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …
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developments in big data analytics and climate change science with agriculture can greatly accelerate agricultural research and … innovation for climate smart agriculture (CSA). CSA refers to an integrated set of technologies and practices that simultaneously … emissions from farming. It is a multistage, multiobjective, data-driven, and knowledge based approach to agriculture, with the …
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far-reaching and intense impacts on conditions affecting agriculture, including temperature, carbon dioxide, glacial run … on agriculture, vulnerable. Concerns about the impact of climate change on agriculture connected with environmental … climate change on Indian agriculture, and two, to suggest strategies and actions to mitigate the problem and the challenges …
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popular scale of assessment is district level in case of Indian agriculture. Despite several evolving methods of vulnerability …
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We study the effects of extreme temperature shocks on political participation using data from Indian elections between 2009 and 2017. Taking advantage of localized, high-frequency data on land surface temperatures, we find that areas with greater cumulative exposure to extreme temperatures...
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Can democratic politics provide a means for responding to climate change? We explore this question by studying the effects of extreme temperatures on Indian elections between 2009 and 2017. We find that areas exposed to extreme temperatures experience an increase in voter turnout and a change in...
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-absorbing technological change in Indian agriculture. Efforts to ramp up industrialization should be taken up in earnest only after the wage …
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We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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I document externalities in the agricultural sector of India due to air pollution. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind, I show that higher levels of particulate matter lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with changes in productivity of 10 percent being common....
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Investment in agriculture is very crucial in the present situation of Nigeria. The effort to overcome food insecurity …, the right step to take is to adequately finance agriculture in order to ensure sufficient food production and safety that … will save the future of the country. This study emphasizes on investment in agriculture to guarantee food security in …
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