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Emissions of chemicals have been on the rise for years, and their impacts are greatly influenced by spatial differentiation. Chemicals are usually emitted locally but their impact...

A technical workshop on 'The Challenges of Index-Based Insurance For Food Security in Developing Countries', organized by the JRC and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), was held...

In 2010 European Commission listed 14 raw materials that are subjected to relatively higher risk of supply disruption, defined critical raw materials (CRM). Life...

This report synthesises the findings from the workshop on “Developments and Prospects of Farm Level Modelling for post 2013 CAP impact analysis” organised jointly by the IPTS-JRC and the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural...

Environmental implications of the whole supply-chain of products, both goods and services, their use, and waste management, i.e. their entire life cycle from 'cradle to grave' have...

Many risky actions are carried out under the influence of alcohol. However, the effect of alcoholic intoxication over the willingness to take risks is complex and still remains...

This report analyses the likely effects of Croatia's accession to the European Union (EU) on the agricultural and food sectors in terms of trade, production, employment and GDP for Croatia, the EU-27 and their...

This report presents a farm household model for use in the context of developing countries to gain knowledge on food security and rural poverty alleviation under different economic conditions...

In 2012 the World Wide Web Foundation launched for the first time the Web Index (WI) which combines existing secondary data with new primary data to rank...

Composite indicators aggregate a set of variables using weights which are understood to reflect the variables’ importance in the index. In this paper we propose to measure the importance of a given...