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A review of economic assessments of drought risk reduction approaches in agriculture Universiteit Antwerpen Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
Due to climate change, the frequency and intensity of droughts are expected to increase. To improve resilience to droughts, proactive drought management is essential. Economic assessments are typically included to decide on the drought risk-reducing investments to make. The choice of both methods and scope of economic assessments influences the outcome, and thus the investment choice. This paper aims to identify how comprehensively economic ...
Agriculture, division of labour, and the paths to economic growth Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Demeter in support of agriculture, and as indicator of systemic economic processes? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The economic impact of Koga dam irrigation water on agriculture in northwest Ethiopia : evidence from a Structural Equation Model Universiteit Gent
Smallholder agriculture in transition economies KU Leuven
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd In this paper, we analyse how smallholder farms have evolved during the transition process in former communist countries and how this process has differed across countries and commodities. The role of smallholders in agriculture differs among transition countries, and this diversity is due to a combination of factors, including capital, labour and land endowments, income levels, scale economies, market ...
Institutional foundations of agricultural development in Ethiopia: drawing lessons from current practice for agricultural R&D Universiteit Gent
The historical emphasis on technological innovation as a pathway to rural development has obscured the institutional foundations of development U+2013 in this case, the role of local and external organizations in shaping patterns of benefits capture. Agrarian communities have a host of ways in which they self-organize to buffer themselves from economic hardship, facilitate access to limited resources and foster social cohesiveness. Yet these ...
Does rural energy poverty alleviation really reduce agricultural carbon emissions? The case of China Universiteit Gent
Energy poverty has led to far-reaching global environmental issues as it can exacerbate carbon emissions, particularly in the rural areas. Alleviating rural energy poverty might be a potentially effective way to mitigate this problem. Accordingly, this paper proposes a novel and comprehensive measurement of Rural Energy Poverty Alleviation (REPA) of 30 provinces in China from 2000 to 2017. The overall REPA index has increased from 2000 to 2017, ...