attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In … current (same fiscal year) drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms' revenue and profit; this effect is most likely … general, dairy farmers "benefit" more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …

conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers …, and climate change is predicted to intensify this problem. The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) scheme piloted in … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands …

cope with oil price volatility. The ongoing dividend equals approximately 30 per cent of government revenue and requires …

on a panel of 153 countries over the period of 1960 to 2002 and employing a truly exogenous drought indicator derived …

The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I … construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate … that those more affected by the drought more often participated in peasant revolts against the feudal system. Then, I …