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Crop Diversification and Child Health: Empirical Evidence From Tanzania
Lovo, Stefania; Veronesi, Marcella - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
. Agricultural diversification has been recognized as a strategy to improve nutrition and human health, and a risk coping strategy in … investigate the effect of crop diversification on child health. We use an instrumental variable approach and estimate the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124971
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Testing for household resilience to food insecurity: evidence from Nicaragua
Romano, Donato; Ciani, Federico - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
The main goal of this paper is to develop a methodology to quantitatively assess resilience to food insecurity. The developed methodology is applied to Nicaraguan rural households hit by Mitch Hurricane in 1999. The proposed resilience index highlights small landowners and agricultural wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125221
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The Impact of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture on Food Security in Developing Countries
Birovljev, Jelena; Ćetković, Biljana - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2013
wealthy, developed countries is institutionalized and maintained. Agriculture has been one of the most controversial issues in … implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It discusses the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, which is systematically favoring …, discusses the relationship between trade and food security, and analyzes the impact of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture on food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067664
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Projections of economic impacts of climate change in agriculture in Europe
Quiroga, Sonia; Iglesias, Ana - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007
The objective of this study is to provide monetary estimates of the impacts of climate change in European agricultural sector. The future scenarios incorporate socio-economic projections derived from several socio-economic scenarios and experiments conducted using global climate models and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005801190
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Climate change impacts on crop risks and agricultural production in Finland
Lehtonen, Heikki; Kujala, Sanna - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007
decrease despite increasing yields. Consequently, climate change may trigger changes on the production structure of agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005460402
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Integrated land use modelling to analyse climate change adaptation in Austrian agriculture
Kirchner, Mathias; Mitter, Hermine; Schönhart, Martin; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
We present an integrated modelling framework (IMF) to analyse climate change impacts on biophysical processes and farm management responses at the spatial resolution of 1km2. The IMF is applied to the Austrian agricultural sector for the period 2025-2040. The model results show that national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125011
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Climate change impacts on European agriculture: a multi model perspective
Frank, Stefan; Witzke, Heinz-Peter; Zimmermann, Andrea; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
We present and integrated supply and demand side analysis of climate change impacts on the agricultural sector from a European perspective based on a joint application of two European focused global partial equilibrium models. Results show that climate change would considerably affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125055
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Dynamic economic modelling of crop rotation with adaptation practices
Liu, Xing; Lehtonen, Heikki; Purola, Tuomo; Pavlova, Yulia - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
We developed a dynamic farm level economic model of crop rotations including nitrogen fertilization, fungicide treatment and liming as adaption practices. Simulations were run at different price and disease scenarios over 30 years. Farmer maximizes present discounted value of futures stream of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125144
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Geographical Labeling of Agri-Food Products and its Incidence on the Cross-Sectional Approach to Climate Change Impacts Assessment
Jayet, Pierre-Alain - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
The cross-sectional approach to the assessment of climate change impacts on agriculture is a widely used technique. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125168
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Economic valuation of the impacts of climate change in agriculture in Europe
Quiroga, Sonia; Iglesias, Ana - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
The objective of this study is to provide a European assessment of the potential effects of climate change on agricultural crop production computing monetary estimates of these impacts for the European agricultural sector. The future scenarios incorporate socio economic projections derived from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005483629