increase Africa-wide with the very hot and dry climate scenario, except in the lowland semi-arid agro-ecological zone. Millet … scenarios. Wheat would decrease across Africa. The authors recommend that care must be taken to match adaptations to local …

farm type in African agriculture. This two stage model first estimates the type of farm chosen and then the conditional …

Previous Ricardian analyses of agriculture have either omitted irrigation or treated irrigation as though it is … and then how climate affects the net revenues of dryland and irrigated land. This Ricardian "selection" model, using a … modified Heckman model, is then estimated across 8,400 farmers in Africa. The analysis explicitly models irrigation but …

impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in Africa. The first phase of the study used a version of a … runoff across the whole continent of Africa rather than to any particular catchment or water resource system. The model … inputs were the climate variables of the 1961-90 climatology and physiological parameters (such as soil properties and land …

This paper uses the Ricardian approach to examine how farmers in 11 countries in Africa have adapted to existing … adaptation might occur. This study differs from earlier ones by using farmers' own perceptions of the value of their land …. Furthermore, it tackles the challenges involved in modeling the effect of climate on agriculture in a study that includes …

In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder …

the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys and instruments for family size using the distance to the nearest family … education expenditure and various measures of private tutoring investment -- and is robust to various definitions of family size …