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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Climate Shocks"”.
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Maize prices, trade and climate shocks - do trade policies mitigate the effects of climate shocks on maize prices?
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Agricultural productivity and climate shocks in developing countries
… productivity in developing countries. Climate change is a significant threat for the developing world countries, and agricultural households experience changes in their productive context, forcing them to adapt to the new environment. Governments and international organizations have …
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From local to global: understanding linkages between climate shocks and food trade
… time, space, and crop. We draw upon open access climate, land use, and economic data. First, we have developed a new algorithm to spatially allocate national-level data to estimate likely sub-national crop-specific areas globally over time. We integrate these land-use estimates with crop and …
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Essays in Spatial Economics, Trade, and Climate Change
In this thesis, I study topics on climate change, trade, and agglomeration. I utilize modern quantitative spatial modelling tools and structural estimation techniques to investigate how space and spatial frictions affect economic outcomes, with a particular focus on climate change. In Chapter 1, I …
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Modeling Food Commodity Prices and Market Dynamics
… related drivers of food commodity prices: global climate shocks and regional transportation costs. The first chapter, "Exploring the Dynamics of the El Niño Southern Oscillation and Food Commodity Prices," investigates how ENSO-related weather anomalies influence the prices of wheat, corn, rice, …
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Chutes and Ladders: Climate Variability and the Decision to Enter Sex Work in India
<p>There is widespread consensus that climate change will drive large-scale changes in poverty distributions, migration, and participation in risky informal labor markets, especially for poor households in developing countries which are both more likely to depend on the environment for their …
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Women's Rights in a Changing Climate: An Intersectional Analysis of Climate Change and Gender Inequality in Nigeria.
Climate change disproportionately impacts women, particularly in Nigeria where poverty and deep-rooted gender inequalities intersect. This dissertation explores how climate change affects women's socio-economic rights, through an intersectional feminist and human rights lens. This study examines …
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Water Literacy in Drought-Prone Regions: Case Studies from Aurora, Colorado, USA and Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
… Of particular concern are regions experiencing climate shocks and aridification from rising global temperatures. In order to stretch limited water resources using equitable water policies, conservation programs, and alternative water sourcing, water managers must invest in a water literate …
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Impacts of Crop Diversification and Household Resilience on Welfare and Child Nutrition in Senegal
Climate variability increases production and income instability in rain-fed rural economies, with consequences for food security and child nutrition. In Senegal’s Groundnut Basin, where households rely on rain-fed farming and have limited formal risk-management options, crop diversification and …
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Pricing Climate Uncertainty: Evidence from Natural Interest Rates to Green Premiums
Climate change introduces a new dimension of systemic uncertainty that is complex, poorly understood, and difficult to quantify. Both physical and transition risks exhibit fat-tailed distributions, are underrepresented in historical data, and carry potentially unlimited downside exposure. These …
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Experts’ opinion on challenges facing the development of green bonds on the Nairobi Securities Exchange
Climate change is arguably biggest challenge for 21st Century. Africa while being the least polluter in the world, is the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The Paris Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), African Development Bank’s strategy 2013-2022, Kenyan National …
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Human mediated physical and virtual water transfers of the United States: Who uses the water?
… More broadly, this study elucidates how local climate shocks reverberate through the global food system, highlighting the importance of complex interactions in the coupled climate-food-water system, and the critical role of local groundwater depletion. A comprehensive, high-resolution database …
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Efecto a largo plazo de los choques de precipitación en el periodo de gestación y la formación de capital humano
Este trabajo evalúa los efectos de los choques de precipitación durante la vida intrauterina sobre el desarrollo de habilidades cognitivas y no cognitivas a largo plazo. Aprovechando la información sobre medidas cognitivas y rasgos de personalidad recogidas por la encuesta Young Lives en Vietnam y …
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Leveraging improved seed technology, migration and climate information for building the adaptive capacity and resilience to climate risks in semi-arid regions
Droughts induced by climate change will most likely push dryland ecosystems beyond their biophysical thresholds and lead to long-term decline in agricultural productivity. Subsistence farming in developing countries where agricultural productivity is low will become less viable for many families …