Call for Papers SETI 2022

SETI 2022 Call for Papers Annual Workshop of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI)

June 23 - 24, 2022, 2-day virtual meeting + Uganda as part of the 2022 EfD Annual Meeting(1 day between September 22-26, 2022) Hosted by NENRE-EfD Chile at the University of Concepción and Duke…

Date: Tuesday 31 May 2022
Location: Virtual + Uganda
NENRE meeting

Call for Papers and Policy Works: NENRE-EfD Chile 7th meeting in October! (in Spanish)

Submit your work here: https://bit.ly/3x8uh34 The Seventh Annual Meeting of the EfD Chile center "Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (NENRE)", will take place on October…

Date: Thursday 14 — Friday 15 October, 2021
Location: Virtually

Scaling up Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) adoption in Uganda: Barriers and policy options

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

The unpredictable shifts in climatic patterns and limited adaptive capacity are adversely affecting agriculture and, in turn, the livelihoods of the Ugandan population (UBOS, 2024). To this end, the Government of Uganda, through the Ministry of Agriculture, working with other ministries, including the Ministries of Water and Environment, Energy, and Finance, has promoted the uptake of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) (Zizinga et al., 2022).

Agriculture, Climate Change, Policy Design

The implicit market price of soil erosion: An estimation using a hedonic model with spatial spillovers

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on

We estimate the implicit market price of soil erosion using quarterly data of 2824 agricultural farms traded in Uruguay between 2000 and 2014. A unique feature of our estimation is that we allow for possible spatial spillovers. We find evidence of a negative and statistically significant association between erosion and land values. On average, an additional loss of 1% of the original topsoil due to erosion is associated with a direct (own) decrease of .24% in the per‐hectare price of agricultural land (P‐value: .012, 95% CI: −.0042, −.0005).

Climate Change, Conservation

Business Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Change: A Socio-Ecological Framework Assessment

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on

Climate change is one of the most relevant sources of uncertainty in present times, imposing high costs on different societal actors, including firms and organizations. Here, we analyze how manufacturing firms could adapt to climate-related stressors, specifically the risk associated with precipitation anomalies faced by firms. We are interested in the strategic adaptation responses related to the water source selection and the performance impacts of these responses. Additionally, we seek to investigate the extent to which the firms' size moderates these relationships.

Climate Change

Price relationships between differentiated agricultural products. Do energy and climate shocks matter?

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on
EfD Authors:

Establishing a clear link between prices of conventional and niche product versions can help address challenges associated with anticipating these prices and attenuate concerns related to thin market conditions. In that regard, we analyze the price dynamics, differentiating between agri-product quality and marketing channels. Special attention is devoted to exploring how this price relationship varies when affected by energy or climate-related shocks. Our methodology follows a panel vector autoregression model (PVAR), which we apply to 23 local market prices in Chile for 2014.M10–2019.M12.

Agriculture, Climate Change