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. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on well-established practice because organic agriculture is a …. The financial requirements of organic agriculture as an adaptation or mitigation strategy are low. Further research is …Organic agriculture, as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability, is a concrete and promising option …
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Improving soil carbon through conservation agriculture in developing countries may generate some private benefits to farmers, as well as sequester carbon emissions, which is a positive externality to society. Leaving crop residue on the farm has become an important option in conservation...
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potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be … within-group levels of mitigation. We compare low-vulnerability and high-vulnerability treatments by varying the magnitude of … viewed as a public good, adaptation to climate change is a private good, benefiting only the country or the individual that …
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Much of the guidance about potential impacts of reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) speculates how efforts would be implemented and draws lessons from other mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES). However, with few REDD activities underway, little...
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The objectives of this study are to analyze the household carbon footprint pattern in Indonesia and to analyze the determinants of the growing carbon footprint in this emerging economy. To measure the household emissions, we combine national input-output, emission database to generate sectoral...
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This paper analyses the economic impacts of climate change on Ethiopia’s agriculture using a countrywide computable general equilibrium model. The impacts on agriculture are based on results from a Ricardian model where current (and future) agricultural production is analyzed as a function of...
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change has been negligible to date, but the potential to contribute to mitigation climate change at the regional level is …
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Water utilities that rely on surface water may be vulnerable to future droughts and floods, a vulnerability that may be …
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Norway is considering a national afforestation program for greenhouse gas (GHG) sequestration on recently abandoned semi-natural pastureland. However, the program may have negative impacts on landscape aesthetics and biodiversity. We conducted a national choice experiment survey to estimate...
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This paper studies the effect of a CDM tree-planting project on carbon sequestration and urban and rural income distribution, taking economy-wide impacts into account. Carbon sequestration in agricultural soil is considered in addition to the carbon in the tree farm itself. The study points to...
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