Similar Search Results

Climate change and agriculture : farmer adaptation to extreme heat

Aragón, Fernando M.; Oteiza, Francisco; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2018

This paper examines how farmers adapt, in the short-run, to extreme heat. Using a production function approach and micro-data from Peruvian households, we find that high temperatures induce farmers to increase the use of inputs, such as land and domestic labor. This reaction partially attenuates...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817490

Posh spice or scary spice? : resource booms, wealth, and human capital across ages

Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2024

We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557627

Comparative analysis of the economic efficiency of eggplant cultivation in greenhouses : organic and conventional agriculture system : forecasts 2024/2025

Berevoianu, Rozi Liliana - In: Agriculture economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 32-39). 2024

Cultivation of vegetables in sheltered areas has become a common practice, due both to the possibilities of extending the vegetable growing season into the off-season and to the control of extreme climatic conditions (e.g. low temperatures and excessive rains) that can cause substantial damage ....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015411437

Trade liberalization, economic activity, and political violence in the Global South : evidence from PTAs

Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Chiovelli, Giorgio; … - 2023

This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014246721

Volatility linkages between energy and agricultural commodity prices

López Cabrera, Brenda; Schulz, Franziska - 2013

In this paper we investigate price and volatility risk originating in linkages between energy and agricultural … and correlation risk structure, which has a large impact for investment and hedging strategies of market participants as … and accurate fitting procedure for volatility and correlation risk. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792252

Frontier Analysis and Agricultural Typologies

Maruyama Sasaki, Eduardo - 2018

PARI's main goal is to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India by supporting the scaling of proven innovations in the agri-food sector in collaboration with all relevant actors. PARI accompanies specified innovations with ex-ante impact research and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922640

External Finance and Agricultural Productivity Growth

Khafagy, Amr; Vigani, Mauro - 2022

We use a CES production function to estimate the impact of external finance on productivity. Finance has an indirect influence on productivity through its effect on capital augmenting-technological change and depends on the elasticity of substitution between equity and debt, as well as on the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289366

Global Fixed Capital Investment by Multinational Firms

Belderbos, René - 2013

We develop and test a model of the simultaneous determination of global gross fixed capital investments by multinational firms. We integrate a model of multi-product firms choosing optimal manufacturing locations with a model of dynamic investment optimization. Firms adjust capital stocks in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088559

C(r)ap and Trade : The Brave New World of Non-Point Source Nutrient Trading and Using Lessons from Greenhouse Gas Markets to Make It Work

Flatt, Victor Byers - 2015

After several decades of improvement, water quality in the United States is getting worse, and the problem is primarily caused by run-off from non-point sources, such as farms and urban development. These non-point sources have never had regulatory mandates in the Clean Water Act, and have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157663

Integrated assessment of biodiversity and agriculture

Gars, Johan; Spiro, Daniel; Engström, Gustav; Lade, … - 2025

economy. To capture the main causes of biodiversity loss and the economic harm from it, we focus on agriculture and its …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015372000