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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich, Tim Ölkers, Vanessa Bonke, Oliver Musshoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial variation in socio-economic vulnerability to Influenza-like Infection for the US population.

PLoS Computational Biology
This study aims to quantify environmental health impacts and assess risk by understanding the disproportionate burden of infectious diseases, specifically Influenza-like Illness (ILI), across regions with varying socio-economic characteristics.
Shrabani S Tripathy, Joseph V Puthussery, Taveen S Kapoor, John R Cirrito, Rajan K Chakrabarty   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socio-Economic Vulnerability of Coastal Communities in Geospatial Aspects Toward Tanjung Carat Port Establishment (Case Study of Sungsang Village, Banyuasin II)

Jurnal Ilmu Lingkungan
The establishment of an international port at Tanjung Carat is part of the National Strategic Projects initiated by the South Sumatra Provincial Government to boost local economic growth.
Herda Sabriyah Dara Kospa, Hala Haidir, Al Shida Natul   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coastal vulnerability assessment of Puducherry coast, India, using the analytical hierarchical process [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2013
As a consequence of change in global climate, an increased frequency of natural hazards such as storm surges, tsunamis and cyclones, is predicted to have dramatic affects on the coastal communities and ecosystems by virtue of the devastation they cause ...
R. Mani Murali, M. Ankita, S. Amrita, P. Vethamony   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

ReAFFIRM: Real-time Assessment of Flash Flood Impacts: a Regional high-resolution Method [PDF]

, 2020
Flash floods evolve rapidly in time, which poses particular challenges to emergency managers. One way to support decision-making is to complement models that estimate the flash flood hazard (e.g.
Berenguer Ferrer, Marc, Corral Alexandri, Carles, Park, Shinju, Ritter, Josias Manuel Gisbert, Sempere Torres, Daniel   +4 more
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate change and urban stormwater: vulnerability analysis of the 2010 floods in Lomé, Togo

Frontiers in Climate, 2023
This manuscript assesses the vulnerability to flooding between June and August 2010 in Lomé, Togo. To this end, we administered a survey to 312 inhabitants of different areas affected by flooding.
Reisch Vanel Attipo, Innocent Joachim Emvoulou, Aholou Cyprien Coffi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overcoming social barriers in managing vulnerability of alpine tourism to environmental change [PDF]

, 2010
Tourism as the world’s biggest service industry is threatened by global environmental change. Alpine tourism with its economic backbone of alpine skiing has been responding to direct ecological threats of climate change.
Luthe, Tobias
core   +1 more source