It is expected that production in the agricultural sector will be significantly affected by climate change. Therefore, it is projected that countries with extreme climatic conditions will suffer a long-term decline in agricultural productivity beyond the short-term loss of production. Given the...

The performance of the agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains low compared to other regions. This is often attributed to the fact that agriculture in SSA is rain-fed, as well as to inadequate investment in research and development (R&D). It is well documented in the literature...

This paper investigates whether the effects of weather variability in temperature and precipitation on agricultural output are short- or long-run. In fact, the study addresses two policy-relevant questions: (1) Does temperature or precipitation variability affect agricultural output, and if so,...

Given the increasing importance of the mining sector in developing countries, an understanding of their level of environmental efficiency is useful, both to the industry itself and to policymakers. Environmental problems introduced by the sector are attracting extensive attention, so...

This study evaluates the environmental performance of large gold-mining operations by applying a by-production model that specifies emission-generating technology, while incorporating a four-way error approach that captures mine-size heterogeneity, transient and persistent technical efficiency,...

This study evaluates the environmental performance of large gold-mining operations by applying a by-production model that specifies emission-generating technology, while incorporating a four-way error approach that captures mine-size heterogeneity, transient and persistent technical efficiency,...

Recent scientific literature shows that in many developing countries, variability in rainfall and temperature in growing season has distortional effects on agricultural output, especially when the variability is high. At what degree or threshold are these variabilities harmful to agricultural...

This article examines an important externality that polluting industries may impose on peoples’ health in their proximities. To ascertain the actual health outcomes and expenditure associated with mining pollution, this study (on a gold mine in Tanzania) used the Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM)...

This paper evaluates the impact of the Purchase 4 Progress (P4P) intervention implemented by World Food Program in Ethiopia on per capita income as well as across sub-social groups. The intervention is intended to improve the market power of smallholder farmers through cooperatives that has the...

This study used the by-production model specification to separate emission-generating technologies from ‘desirable outputs’ technology. It then employed the dynamic efficiency model, following the Dynamic Directional Input Distance Function specifications to compute the deterministic,...