[HTML][HTML] Economics of crop residue management

VV Krishna, M Mkondiwa - Annual Review of Resource …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
More than five billion metric tons of agricultural residues are produced annually worldwide.
Despite having multiple uses and significant potential to augment crop and livestock …

[HTML][HTML] GloCAB: global cropland burned area from mid-2002 to 2020

JV Hall, F Argueta, M Zubkova, Y Chen… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Burned area estimates are an essential component of cropland management systems,
inventory-based fire emission calculations, and air quality models, and any inaccuracies in …

Mitigating agricultural fires with carrot or stick? Evidence from China

J Cao, R Ma - Journal of Development Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper examines the effects of biomass power plants (BPPs) on farmers' use of
agricultural fires for land clearance in China from 2001 to 2019. We show that the entry of …

Detecting crop burning in India using satellite data

K Walker, B Moscona, K Jack, S Jayachandran… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Crop residue burning is a major source of air pollution in many parts of the world, notably
South Asia. Policymakers, practitioners and researchers have invested in both measuring …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the potential and eligibility of conservation agriculture practices for carbon credits

AAG Cariappa, NC Konath, TB Sapkota, VV Krishna - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Carbon credits, a voluntary market mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,
can incentivize climate action. We evaluate the potential and eligibility of Conservation …

[PDF][PDF] Conducting (Long-term) Impact Evaluations in Humanitarian and Conflict Settings: Evidence from a complex agricultural intervention in Syria

A Kayaoglu, G Baliki, T Brück - Household in Conflict Network Paper Series, 2023 - hicn.org
The number of vulnerable people in humanitarian emergencies worldwide is increasing due
to the rising frequency and intensity of risk exposure. At the same time, most interventions in …

[HTML][HTML] Overcoming Common Pitfalls to Improve the Accuracy of Crop Residue Burning Measurement Based on Remote Sensing Data

K Walker - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
Crop residue burning (CRB) is a major source of air pollution in many parts of the world,
especially Asia. Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers have invested in measuring …

Combatting forest fires in the drylands of Sub‐Saharan Africa: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Burkina Faso

TN Huy, GS Adjognon… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forest fires are among the main drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in the
drylands of Sub‐Saharan Africa. We use remote sensing data on forest fires and remaining …

[PDF][PDF] Environmental Policy under Weak Institutions

C Karayalcin, H Onder - 2024 - documents1.worldbank.org
Climate change is transforming the global policy agenda, with significant consequences for
developing economies. On one hand, trade policy measures such as the European Carbon …

Eliciting Supplier Cooperation for Value Chain Decarbonization: A Field Experiment with Smallholder Farmers in India

S Ghosh, J Singh - 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Firms are increasingly under pressure to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions not just
within their operations but across their value chains. However, value chain decarbonization …