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, including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify …
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Water, energy, and agriculture have been conventionally dealt with separately in investment planning. For each of these … agriculture are significant, with production projected to drop by 60 percent by 2050 in some countries. On the upside, reducing …
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including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify …
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for this analysis, the report highlights the central role of water use in irrigated agriculture and its link with … agriculture. The framework is then applied to make the case that, with increasing water scarcity, the ongoing efforts for …
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This paper examines two new methods to generate gridded agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and compares the results with a traditional method. In the case of Brazil, these two new methods of spatial disaggregation and cross-entropy outperform the prediction of agricultural GDP from the...
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The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic activity in these largely agrarian societies remain poorly understood. To study these...
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commercial agriculture and have witnessed greater reductions in land area compared with their male counterparts. The results show … are the three most promising policy options to reach gender parity in agriculture in Cote d'Ivoire …
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This paper exploits the social organization of India to revisit the question of education spillovers in farm … productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed …
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The paper revisits the traditional transport-agricultural growth nexus. Connectivity is particularly challenging for small island developing states, such as the Comoros, where domestic markets are limited and transport and transaction costs tend to be high. Using household survey data from...
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"This book documents frontier knowledge on the drivers of agriculture productivity to derive pragmatic policy advice … modern technology. Agriculture and food systems are rapidly transforming, characterized by shifting food preferences, the … rise and growing sophistication of value chains, the increasing globalization of agriculture, and the expanding role of the …
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