How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … 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 …

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 …

. In addition, there is greater depletion of the groundwater in wells near the two highways relative to wells located …

the hypothesis that the introduction of maize increased population density and Trans-Atlantic slave exports in precolonial … Africa. We find robust empirical support for these predictions. We also find little evidence to suggest maize increased … economic growth or reduced conflict. Our results suggest that rather than stimulating development, the introduction of maize …

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 …