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Bioenergy and global land-use change [PDF]
Applied Economics, 2014 This is the first article that econometrically estimates the global land-use change impact of bioenergy. Applying time-series analytical mechanisms to fuel, biofuel and agricultural commodity prices and production, we estimate the long-run relationship between energy prices, bioenergy production and the global land-use change.
Pavel Ciaian +2 more
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Promoting private forests for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems restoration in the Sahel region [PDF]
Nature Conservation, 2023 Private forests have the potential to mitigate biodiversity loss and improve community livelihoods. However, information on the socio-ecological factors that drive their establishment and long-term management are limited.
Karafa Bognini +4 more
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Law and Policy Review on Green Hydrogen Potential in ECOWAS Countries
Energies, 2022 This paper aims to review existing energy-sector and hydrogen-energy-related legal, policy, and strategy documents in the ECOWAS region. To achieve this aim, current renewable-energy-related laws, acts of parliament, executive orders, presidential ...
Abdoulaye Ballo +6 more
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Effects of customized climate services on land and labor productivity in Burkina Faso and Ghana
Climate Services, 2022 Climate services favor adopting strategies to increase agricultural productivity, enhance sustainable development, and adapt to unavoidable climate variability and change.
Safiétou Sanfo +12 more
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A Ricardian valuation of the impact of climate change on Nigerian cocoa production: Insight for adaptation policy [PDF]
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2018 Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine the relative importance of climate normals (average long-term temperature and precipitation) in explaining net farm revenue per hectare (NRh) for supplementary irrigated and rainfed cocoa farms in Nigeria.
William M. Fonta +5 more
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Discover Sustainability, 2021 Africa’s freshwater ecosystems are impacted by many threats due to climate change and several anthropogenic activities. In Côte d’Ivoire, the economy relies mostly on agriculture, which covers around 64% of the land surface.
Amien Isaac Amoutchi +4 more
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Assessing climate change impact on the hydropower potential of the Bamboi catchment (Black Volta, West Africa) [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2021 This study evaluates the impact of future climate change (CC) on the hydropower generation potential of the Bamboi catchment (Black Volta) in West Africa using a conceptual rainfall-runoff model (HBV light) and regional climate models (RCMs)–global ...
Y. Yira +8 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The regional climate as it is now and in the future will put pressure on investments in sub-Saharan Africa in water resource management, fisheries, and other crop and livestock production systems.
Seyni Salack +14 more
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The impact of crop farmers’ decisions on future land use, land cover changes in Kintampo North Municipality of Ghana [PDF]
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2018 Purpose - This paper aims to assess the rate and land category contributing to the changes in seven land-uses in the Kintampo North Municipality of Ghana and the effect of the decisions of land users on future landscapes.
Enoch Bessah +5 more
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Land use in rural New Zealand: spatial land use, land-use change, and model validation [PDF]
, 2014 Land is an important social and economic resource. Knowing the spatial distribution of land use and the expected location of future land-use change is important to inform decision makers.
Corey Allan +4 more
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