scholarly journals CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON LATIN AMERICAN FARMLAND VALUES: THE ROLE OF FARM TYPE.

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Niggol Seo ◽  
Robert Mendelsohn
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Climate Sensitivity ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
South American ◽  
Farm Type ◽  
Farmland Values

This paper examines climate change impacts on South American agricultureusing a set of Ricardian regressions estimated across different samples of farms in SouthAmerica. Regressions are run for the whole sample and for subsamples of crop-only,mixed, and livestock-only farms. The results indicate that climate sensitivity varies agreat deal across each type of farm. The analysis also reveals that the impacts will varysubstantially across South America. The hot and wet Amazon and Equatorial regionsare likely to lose the most from warming scenarios whereas the more temperate highelevation and southern regions of South America will likely gain.

scholarly journals Impacts of free market and US foreign policy on Colombian and Latin American revolution

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Noam Chomsky
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
South America ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
South American ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
The Us

<p>After several coups assisted by US agencies since the fifties in Latin America, and deep economic crises in the eighties and the nineties in South America explained by “the rule of markets” enforced by multilateral organizations, the US leadership in the Americas has been lost, and democratic countries have turned against neoliberalism with wide popular support inside a new “South American revolution” with important projects of integration. Colombia has become the capital in South America for US leadership in economics and politics, and the only country that still has guerrillas, paramilitary armies, and internal conflict. What has been the role of the US in Colombian conflict? What is in stake with the new peace process in Colombia? How this process will affect the US leadership in Latin America? These are some questions that will be reviewed by Noam Chomsky, one of the most influential thinkers of our times.</p>

scholarly journals Out of Amazonia: Late-Holocene climate change and the Tupi–Guarani trans-continental expansion

The Holocene ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 967-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Iriarte ◽  
Richard J Smith ◽  
Jonas Gregorio de Souza ◽  
Francis Edward Mayle ◽  
Bronwen S Whitney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South America ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
South American ◽  
Forest Farming ◽  
Continental Scale ◽  
Linguistic Family ◽  
Southern Amazonia ◽  
Increasing Precipitation

The late-Holocene expansion of the Tupi–Guarani languages from southern Amazonia to SE South America constitutes one of the largest expansions of any linguistic family in the world, spanning ~4000 km between latitudes 0°S and 35°S at about 2.5k cal. yr BP. However, the underlying reasons for this expansion are a matter of debate. Here, we compare continental-scale palaeoecological, palaeoclimate and archaeological datasets, to examine the role of climate change in facilitating the expansion of this forest-farming culture. Because this expansion lies within the path of the South American Low-Level Jet, the key mechanism for moisture transport across lowland South America, we were able to explore the relationship between climate change, forest expansion and the Tupi–Guarani. Our data synthesis shows broad synchrony between late-Holocene increasing precipitation and southerly expansion of both tropical forest and Guarani archaeological sites – the southernmost branch of the Tupi–Guarani. We conclude that climate change likely facilitated the agricultural expansion of the Guarani forest-farming culture by increasing the area of forested landscape that they could exploit, showing a prime example of ecological opportunism.

Short communication on the role of cellulosic fiber-based packaging in reduction of climate change impacts

2021 ◽  
Vol 254 ◽  
pp. 117248
Author(s):  
Urs Schenker ◽  
Julia Chardot ◽  
Karim Missoum ◽  
Alexey Vishtal ◽  
Julien Bras
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Short Communication ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Cellulosic Fiber

Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Application of the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modeling (IEEM) Platform

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onil Banerjee ◽  
Martin Cicowiez ◽  
Ana Rios ◽  
Cicero De Lima
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Environmental Modeling ◽  
Sectoral Output ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Agricultural Yields

In this paper, we assess the economy-wide impact of Climate Change (CC) on agriculture and food security in 20 Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) countries. Specifically, we focus on the following three channels through which CC may affect agricultural and non-agricultural production: (i) agricultural yields; (ii) labor productivity in agriculture, and; (iii) economy-wide labor productivity. We implement the analysis using the Integrated Economic-Environmental Model (IEEM) and databases for 20 LAC available through the OPEN IEEM Platform. Our analysis identifies those countries most affected according to key indicators including Gross Domestic Product (GDP), international commerce, sectoral output, poverty, and emissions. Most countries experience negative impacts on GDP, with the exception of the major soybean producing countries, namely, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. We find that CC-induced crop productivity and labor productivity changes affect countries differently. The combined impact, however, indicates that Belize, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Paraguay would fare the worst. Early identification of these hardest hit countries can enable policy makers pre-empting these effects and beginning the design of adaptation strategies early on. In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, only Argentina, Chile and Uruguay would experience small increases in emissions.

Climate Change, Global Justice, and Health Inequities

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-56
Author(s):  
Sharon Friel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Environmental Epidemiology ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Vector Borne Diseases ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

This chapter explains the role of human activities in driving climate change, and some of its most significant impacts. It discusses justice issues raised by climate change, including causal responsibility, future development rights, the distribution of climate change harms, and intergenerational inequity. The chapter also provides a status update on current health inequities, noting the now recognized role of political, economic, commercial, and social factors in determining health. This section also discusses environmental epidemiology and the shift to eco-social approaches and eco-epidemiology, noting that while eco-epidemiologists have begun to research the influence of climate change on health, this research has not yet considered in depth the influence of social systems. The chapter concludes with an overview of how climate change exacerbates existing health inequities, focusing on the health implications of significant climate change impacts, including extreme weather events, rising sea levels, heat stress, vector-borne diseases, and food insecurity.

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