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Learning the hard way? Adapting to climate risk in Tanzania
Waage Skjeflo, Sofie; Bruvik Westberg, Nina - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2014
We use recent panel data on Tanzanian farm households to investigate how previous exposure to weather shocks affects the impact of a current shock. Specifically, we investigate the impact of droughts on agricultural outcomes and investments in children's health, measured by their short- and...
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CLIMATE RISK AND FARMING SYSTEMS IN RURAL CAMEROON
Witt, Rudolf; Waibel, Hermann - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2009
Climate risk is particularly burdensome to small-scale farmers in developing countries due to heavy dependence on natural resources, limited and erratic rainfall with high inter- and intra-annual variability, and other natural calamities. Numerous studies on climate change suggest that climate...
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
Baez, Javier E.; Kronick, Dorothy; Mason, Andrew D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
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Integrated assessment modeling of climate change adaptation in forestry and pasture land use: A review
Rose, Steven K. - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 548-554
paper reviews and characterizes climate change adaptation modeling of forestry and pasture land use by IAMs, as well as … yielded insights regarding adaptation's potential for reducing risks, and possibly generating societal benefits. Empirical … modeling will be important going forward to identify adaptation options and provide an observation based grounding for IAM …
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The Impact of Climate Change on the Profitability of Site Specific Technologies
Finger, Robert; Gerwig, Claude N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Site Specific Technologies (SST) can reduce environmental pollution caused by common agricultural practice. Using a case study for corn yields, we investigate the impact of climate change (CC) on profitability of SSTs. We find CC to increase spatial variability of soils with respect to optimal...
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Adaptation to Climate Change by Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania
Komba, Coretha; Muchapondwa, Edwin - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
recognize the changes already taking place in their climate and undertake appropriate investments towards adaptation. This study … investigates whether smallholder farmers in Tanzania recognize climate change and consequently adapt to it in their agricultural … activities. The study also investigates the factors influencing their choice of adaptation methods to climate change To do this …
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Temperature, human health, and adaptation: A review of the empirical literature
Deschenes, Olivier - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 606-619
, and adaptation to temperature extremes. The objectives of the paper are to highlight the many remaining gaps in the … to incorporate human health and adaptation in its framework. I begin by presenting the conceptual and methodological … issues associated with the measurement of the effect of temperature extremes on health, and the role of adaptation in …
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Weather and Welfare: Health and Agricultural Impacts of Climate Extremes, Evidence from Mexico
Compean, Roberto Guerrero - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Using data for all 2,454 municipalities of Mexico for the period 1980-2010, this paper analyzes the relationship between exposure to extreme temperatures and precipitation and death, as well as the relationship between severe weather and agricultural income and crop production in the country. It...
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The Impact of Displacement on Child Health: Evidence from Colombia's DHS 2010
Wald, Nina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
This paper investigates the causal impact of displacement on health outcomes for Colombian children of different age cohorts. It uses the Colombian Demographic and Health Survey 2010, which provides both a number of health outcomes and information about displacement of households. Two different...
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Is there a gender gap in child nutritional outcomes in rural China?
Ren, Weiwei; Rammohan, Anu; Wu, Yanrui - In: China Economic Review 31 (2014) C, pp. 145-155
In this paper, we use data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) to examine if there are any gender differences in child anthropometric outcomes among rural Chinese children, explicitly taking into account the role of China's family planning policies. Our analysis shows that although...
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