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, biodiversity, and environmental management to meet rising food and fiber demands while sustaining livelihoods and the environment …
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This report presents the partial results related to land use, land-use change and the forestry sector from a larger multisectoral low-carbon study for Brazil. Since the 1992 Kyoto Accord, Brazil has been committed to reducing its carbon emissions. The overall aim of this study was to support...
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shrublands, mangroves, wetlands, around springs, and along watercourses and reservoirs.The legal mandate to reforest or recover …
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, biodiversity, and environmental management to meet rising food and fiber demands while sustaining livelihoods and the environment …
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oilseeds, the weak dollar, and the increase in food production costs due to higher energy prices. It concludes that the most …"The rapid rise in food prices has been a burden on the poor in developing countries, who spend roughly half of their … household incomes on food. This paper examines the factors behind the rapid increase in internationally traded food prices since …
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This study was commissioned to analyse the cost efficiency and economic viability of an ethanol programme, for reducing disease, and protecting the forests in Madagascar. This information is also expected to be of interest regionally and internationally, given that the World Health Organization...
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water use in agriculture and builds food systems that are more resilient in the face of a changing climate …
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European Union have adopted such different policies toward genetically modified (GM) food. Their results show that when firms …
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Africa's growing demand for food has been met increasingly by imports from the global market. This, coupled with rising … global food prices, brings ever-mounting food import bills. In addition, population growth and changing demand patterns will … impacts on poverty. The report highlights the range of barriers to food trade in Africa along the entire value chain. The …
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