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This paper examines the likely impact on agriculture of the climate change which has already taken place between 1960 and 2000. Accumulating greenhouse gases have caused global temperatures to rise approximately 0.25 °C during this period and for precipitation patterns to shift. Using...
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This paper argues for efficient environmental regulations that equate the marginal damage of pollution to marginal abatement costs across space. The paper estimates the source-specific marginal damages of air pollution and calculates the welfare gain from making the current sulfur dioxide...
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This study examines the impact of climate change on cropland in Africa, using a Ricardian cross-sectional approach … variables. The study confirms that current climate affects the net revenues of farms across Africa. Applying these results to …
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This paper examines the impact of climate change on primary crops grown in Africa. An innovative approach is presented … model is estimated using a sample of over 5000 farmers across 11 countries in Africa. The analysis finds that farmers shift …
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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 revenues of large farms in Africa are more sensitive to temperature than those … farms in Africa are more sensitive to temperature than small ones, primarily because of their dependence on cattle. …
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Africa and where it is located is provided. Using current conditions, the model calculates baseline values of cropland and … identifies the aggregate impacts, but also indicates where the impacts occur across Africa. The central region of Africa is hurt …
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This paper develops a Structural Ricardian model to measure climate change impacts that explicitly models the choice of farm type in African agriculture. This two stage model first estimates the type of farm chosen and then the conditional incomes of each farm type after removing selection...
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-ecological zone in Africa. The authors examine how climate has affected the farmer's choice to raise livestock or not and the choice … models and the estimated model. With a hot dry scenario, livestock ownership will increase slightly across all of Africa, but … especially in West Africa and high elevation agro-ecological zones. Dairy cattle will decrease in semi-arid regions, sheep will …
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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 …
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