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Fertilizer Use Intensification and Manure Use: The case of Tigrai, northern Ethiopia

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:nlsclt:2025_001&r=&r=agr

Published: April 24, 2025 00:00

There has been an increase in fertilizer use among farmers in the semi-arid Tigray region of Ethiopia during 2006-2015. Our household panel data covering nine years show that the average fertilizer adoption rate had increased from about 31% of plots in…

Shifting Trade Policies and the Outlook for U.S. Walnut Exports

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:ndsure:356492&r=&r=agr

Published: April 20, 2025 00:00

The U.S. walnut industry is experiencing growing economic uncertainty due to shifting trade policies and the threat of retaliatory tariffs. This report analyzes the potential trade risks under seven different policy scenarios, drawing on historical trade…

Certified to Stay ? Long-Run Experimental Evidence on Land Formalization and Widows’ Tenure Security in Benin

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:11102&r=&r=agr

Published: April 17, 2025 00:00

In settings where women’s land rights are informal, the death of a husband can severely limit a widow’s access to land and her ability to remain in her home — especially in the absence of a male heir. This paper examines whether large-scale land…

Exploring the Economic Nature of Spiritual Values: Results from a Qualitative Meta-analysis

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:aue:wpaper:2530&r=&r=agr

Published: April 15, 2025 00:00

The study performs a qualitative meta-analysis of literature on economic valuation of spiritual values, to possibly assess and attach them a common meaning and content. We apply the qualitative meta-analysis procedure, developed by Atkins et al. (2008),…

Global Demand and Supply Elasticities and the Impact of Tariff Shocks

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wfo:wpaper:y:2025:i:702&r=&r=agr

Published: April 14, 2025 00:00

This study applies the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) to the Asian Development Bank's Multi-Region Input-Output (MRIO) dataset to estimate global demand and supply elasticities across intermediate versus final, and domestic versus foreign…

Technology Shocks, Directed Technical Progress and Climate Change

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:130495&r=&r=agr

Published: April 4, 2025 00:00

Technical progress is considered a key element in the ght against climate change. It may take the form of technological breakthroughs, that is, shocks that induce signicant leaps in the stock of knowledge. We use an endogenous growth framework with…

Assessing Greece's plans towards climate-neutrality under a water-energy-food-emissions modelling nexus: Ambitious goals versus scattered efforts

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:aue:wpaper:2527&r=&r=agr

Published: March 28, 2025 00:00

Achieving climate-neutrality is a global imperative that demands coordinated efforts from both science and robust policies supporting a smooth transition across multiple sectors. However, the interdisciplinary and complex science-to-policy nature of this…

Women’s off-farm employment and dietary quality in rural Africa

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Published: March 24, 2025 00:00

Most households in rural Africa are involved in smallholder farming, but off-farm employment is an important additional income source for many. Previous research has analyzed links between off-farm employment and wellbeing, but mostly at the household…

Quantifying the Economic Costs of Climate Change Inaction for Asia and the Pacific

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ris:adbewp:0771&r=&r=agr

Published: March 19, 2025 00:00

This paper uses results from leading biophysical models in an established macro-economic modeling framework to offer insights on potential economic consequences of climate change in Asia and the Pacific. The analysis covers shocks in agriculture,…