's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order …

emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link … between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops is suggested by natural science literature. We use Indonesia as a case … planting season", i.e. December, determines an increase in violence fuelled by the reduction in future rice production per …

The potentially adverse effects of droughts on agricultural output are obvious. Indonesian rice farmers have no … for droughts for rice production in Indonesia. To reduce basis risk, we construct district specific indices that are based …

of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … yields - rice yields are reduced by rainfall extremes whereas extremely high temperatures make yields of all three crops …