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This study investigates the impact of climate change adaptation on farm households’ downside risk exposure (e.g., risk … adaptation reduces downside risk exposure, i.e., farm households that implemented climate change adaptation strategies get … terms of reduction in downside risk exposure from adaptation; and (iii) there are significant differences in downside risk …
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Information on the cost of adaptation in freshwater systems is necessary to better design strategies to face climate … estimations of other than only direct costs, in addition to addressing the issues of ‘adaptation deficit’ and â …
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This paper examines the impact of climate change on primary crops grown in Africa. An innovative approach is presented that bridges the gap between agro-economic and traditional Ricardian models. We label it a ‘structural Ricardian model’. It first captures the type of crop a farmer...
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This paper uses a cross-sectional approach to analyze the impacts of climate change on animal husbandry and the way farmers adapt. The study is based on surveys of almost 5000 livestock farmers across ten countries in Africa. A traditional Ricardian regression finds that the livestock net...
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This study analyzed determinants of farm-level climate adaptation measures in Africa using a multinomial choice model … information about adaptation to climate change, including technological and institutional methods, particularly for poor farmers …
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This paper builds a model determining optimal capacities of diversion dams or water transfer projects. The model incorporates stochastic inflows to the dams and the role of the dam capacity in reducing overflows, and gives a closed-form expression of the marginal benefit of capacities....
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The paper analyses the impact of adopting new agricultural technologies on the multiple dimensions of food security for maize farmers in Tanzania. Relying on matching techniques, we use a nationally representative dataset collected over the period 2010/2011 to estimate the causal eects of using...
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