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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    This paper estimates a model of a farm
    that treats the choice of crops, livestock, and irrigation
    as endogenous. The model is composed of a multinomial
    choice of farm type, a binomial choice of irrigation, and a
    set of conditional land value functions. The model is
    estimated across over 2,000 farmers in seven Latin America
    countries. The results quantify how farmers adapt their
    choice of farm type and irrigation to their local climate.

  2. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Costa Rica

    Costa Rica's Program of Payments
    for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales,
    PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct
    payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports
    evidence on how much more forest has been conserved in Costa
    Rica as a result of PSA contracts with landowners. Such
    evidence requires estimating a counterfactual outcome: how
    much forest would have been preserved if there had been no

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    The authors explore how Latin American
    livestock farmers adapt to climate by switching species.
    They develop a multinomial choice model of farmer's
    choice of livestock species. Estimating the models across
    over 1,200 livestock farmers in seven countries, they find
    that both temperature and precipitation affect the species
    Latin American farmers choose. The authors then use this
    model to predict how future climate scenarios would affect

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Peru

    This report on a key to poverty
    reduction in Peru identifies a number of cost-effective
    policy interventions that could be adopted in the short and
    medium term to support sustainable development goals as the
    Government of Peru attempts to combat the problems of
    inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene; urban air
    pollution; natural disasters; lead exposure; indoor air
    pollution; land degradation; deforestation; and inadequate

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Guatemala

    This country note briefly summarizes
    information relevant to both climate change and agriculture
    in Guatemala, with focus on policy developments (including
    action plans and programs) and institutional make-up. Like
    most countries in Latin America, Guatemala has submitted one
    national communication to the United Nations Framework
    Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Land use change and
    forestry are by far the largest contributors to greenhouse

  6. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Panama

    Panama is experiencing spectacular
    economic growth, averaging 7.5 percent during 2004-06; a
    construction boom; and emerging new opportunities and
    growing export markets. Despite this impressive growth
    performance, at the national level poverty remained almost
    unchanged during 1997-2006 at around 37 percent (masking a
    decline in rural poverty and an increase in urban and
    indigenous areas). Key development challenges for Panama

  7. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Haiti

    Haiti suffers from a serious
    deterioration of its natural environment and, in particular,
    from a heavy pressure on its natural resources. The reasons
    for this deterioration are multiple (poverty level,
    demographic pressure, agricultural techniques and insecurity
    regarding land tenure) and, therefore, go beyond the strict
    scope of energy. However, the wood-fuel consumption is one
    of the main factors of this deterioration. On a national

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Mexico

    This study analyzes a range of energy
    efficiency options available in Mexico, including
    supply-side efficiency improvements in the electric power
    and oil and gas industries and demand-side electricity
    efficiency measures to limit high-growth energy-consuming
    activities, such as air conditioning and refrigeration. It
    also evaluates a range of renewable energy options that make
    use of the country's vast wind, solar, biomass, hydro,

  9. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Peru

    This book argues that Peru faces an
    unprecedented opportunity to become the next success story
    in Latin America. In the coming five years, policy making
    could put the country on a development path similar to the
    one that, say, Chile, Costa Rica, or Spain have followed
    over the last two decades. This book includes 32
    sector-specific chapters and 2 historical perspectives that
    precede them. The beginning chapter, a synthesis, builds a

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    This study estimates the vulnerability
    of Latin American agriculture to climate change using a
    Ricardian analysis of both land values and net revenues.
    Examining a sample of over 2,500 farms in seven countries,
    the results indicate both land value and net revenue are
    sensitive to climate. Both small farms and large farms have
    a hill-shaped relationship with temperature. Estimating
    separate regressions for dryland and irrigated farms reveals

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