energy codes (BECs) across 88 countries, highlighting their critical role in driving energy efficiency and sustainable …

The purpose of this report is to assess the status of past and current energy efficiency initiatives in Lebanon and, in … conjunction with key stakeholders, prepare an Energy Efficiency Action Plan, implementation of this Action Plan in the near future …

and toward Western European levels. By 2008 efficiency gains had produced cost savings totaling US$349 million. The …

interest to consumers. "Golden rice" has been genetically engineered to contain a higher level of vitamin A and thereby boost … of adopting both types of innovation in Asia, including its impact on rice producers and other consumers. They do so … using the global economywide computable general equilibrium model known as GTAP. The results suggest that farm productivity …

In Guinea, improving the productivity of upland rice is a key challenge for the national agricultural services. Though … rice is the main staple in Guinea, low yields make the country highly dependent on rice imports that it can ill afford … technology available, the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), located in neighboring Cote d'Ivoire, had made a …

consumers and producers. In the case of rice in Liberia however, the impact of a change in price is not ambiguous because a … large share of the rice consumed is imported, while the rice locally produced is used mostly for auto-consumption. An … increase in the price of rice will result in higher poverty in the country as a whole (even if some local producers will gain …