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A Strategic Approach to Climate Change in the Philippines

An Assessment of Low-Carbon Interventions in the Transport and Power Sectors

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
April, 2010
Philippines, Eastern Asia, Oceania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land use
Globally, the Philippines is a minor emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs), but cost-effective mitigation present opportunities that should be captured, noting that the country is one of the signatory member states to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol. The country accounts for less than 0.3 percent of global GHG emissions in 2004.4 However, emissions are on the rise from both energy-use and land-use changes.
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A structural change analysis of the cost efficiency of farms in Scotland 1989-2008

Conference Papers & Reports
May, 2010
One of the aims of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is to increase thecompetitiveness of farmers through increasing their exposure to markets. An aspect of competitiveness is the gains in economic efficiency. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to estimate indicators of farm efficiency for the period 1989 to 2008 by farm type and to analyse what the effect on efficiency of changes in the CAP has been.
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Access to Credit, Factor Allocation and Farm Productivity: Evidence From the CEE Transition Economies

Conference Papers & Reports
May, 2010
This paper analyses how farm access to credit affects farm input allocation and farmefficiency in the CEE countries. Drawing on a unique farm level panel data with 37,409observations and employing a matching estimator we are able to control for the keysource of endogeneity – unoberserved heterogeneity. We find that farms are creditconstrained both in the short-run as well as in the long-run, but that credit constraint is asymmetric between inputs. Our estimates suggest that farm access to credit increasesTFP up to 1.9% per 1000 EUR of additional credit.
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Acerca de los cambios climáticos en Sudamérica

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2010
Bolivia
development agencies
rural development
sustainable development
Este documento ofrece un mapa de los actores institucionales multilaterales (BID, FIDA, BM, FAO, IICA, CEPAL, USAID, GTZ Y UE) de carácter financiero o técnico, que trabajan en la temática de desarrollo rural sudamericano.
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An analysis of milk quota abolition impact on Scottish farmers’ behaviour

Conference Papers & Reports
May, 2010
This paper analyses factors influencing Scottish dairy farmers’ intentions to change size of business in response to milk quota abolition. The analysis uses structural equation modelling and is based on survey data collected in 2009 through telephone interviewswith 533 farmers.
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Arrêté n° 000109/MINDAF/S030 du 08 avril 2010 portant création, organisation et fonctionnement des Guichets Uniques de facilitation des transactions foncières et domaniales aux entreprises commerciales.

Regulations
April, 2010
Cameroon
Le présent arrêté crée au sein de chaque Délégation Départementale des Domaines et des Affaires Foncières, un Guichet unique de facilitation des transactions foncières et domaniales aux entreprises commerciales.Le Guichet a pour missions de: centraliser les demandes en provenance des entreprises ; veiller au traitement diligent desdites demandes par les services concernés à travers les points focaux institués ; communiquer auxdites entreprises les suites réservées à leurs demandes.
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Assessing agricultural policy incentives for Greek organic agriculture: A Real options approach

Conference Papers & Reports
May, 2010
The adoption of organic agriculture or livestock involves risk and uncertainty, and to overcome this, well designed schemes are required. Are the current support measures attractive for farmers who wish to convert to organic? At first, this study tries to assess the optimal investment trigger for a new comer into organic dairy sheep farming system and secondly, to evaluate the investment profitability of an existing organic farmer in his attempt to improve his farm.
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Assessment of Ecological Risk to Land Use in Liaoning Province Based on Global Climate Change

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2010
China
land use
Based on the climatic data and other statistics of climatic data of 54 meteorological stations from 1956 to 2005 in Liangning Province, the annual and seasonal light, heat and water and the like major elements of climatic resources are diagnosed and analyzed by using the method of linear climate trend rate. The results show that warming trend is 0.25℃/10a , the precipitation decrease gradually by 2.2mm/a and the decreasing trend of solar radiation and hours of sunshine is not dramatic.
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CAP reform and its impact on structural change and productivity growth: A cross country analysis

Conference Papers & Reports
May, 2010
The recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have exposed the European agricultural sector to a new set of constraints and challenges. The decoupling of direct payments from production is expected to make production decisions more market-oriented as farmers move from mainly subsidy revenue maximization objectives toward profit maximizing behaviour. However, ex-post analyses of the productivity of farms have yet to uncover any evidence of a positive effect of the decoupling policy on farm productivity.
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Colombia: Mujeres rurales gestionan su Ley

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2010
Colombia
gender equity in access to land
women
land policies

*Ana Isabel Arenas Saavedra **Claudia Patricia Collazos Naranjo
Una Ley no va a resolver la enorme deuda social del Estado colombiano con las mujeres rurales, pero podría ayudar a que éste comience a cumplir con las obligaciones largamente postergadas. Este es el convencimiento que guía a varias organizaciones de mujeres que están gestionando más acción gubernamental para el sector, pero normada por políticas públicas y no como expresión de asistencialismo o dádivas políticas.
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