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This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the 16 agro-ecological zones in Africa using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization combined with economic survey data from a Global Environment Facility/World Bank project. Net revenue per hectare of cropland is...
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agriculture community. The results indicate that irrigation is an effective adaptation against loss of rainfall and higher …Previous Ricardian analyses of agriculture have either omitted irrigation or treated irrigation as though it is … exogenous. In practice, it is a choice by farmers that is sensitive to climate. This paper develops a choice model of irrigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521631
This paper estimates a model of a farm that treats the choice of crops, livestock, and irrigation as endogenous. The … model is composed of a multinomial choice of farm type, a binomial choice of irrigation, and a set of conditional land value … adapt their choice of farm type and irrigation to their local climate. The results should help governments develop effective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521746
. They find that it is important to include the amount of irrigation water available to each farm in order to measure the … response of farms to climate. With irrigation water omitted, the model predicts that climate change is strictly beneficial. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521772
This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the 16 agro-ecological zones in Africa using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization combined with economic survey data from a Global Environment Facility/World Bank project. Net revenue per hectare of cropland is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552385
. They find that it is important to include the amount of irrigation water available to each farm in order to measure the … response of farms to climate. With irrigation water omitted, the model predicts that climate change is strictly beneficial. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552585
This paper estimates a model of a farm that treats the choice of crops, livestock, and irrigation as endogenous. The … model is composed of a multinomial choice of farm type, a binomial choice of irrigation, and a set of conditional land value … adapt their choice of farm type and irrigation to their local climate. The results should help governments develop effective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552610
agriculture community. The results indicate that irrigation is an effective adaptation against loss of rainfall and higher …Previous Ricardian analyses of agriculture have either omitted irrigation or treated irrigation as though it is … exogenous. In practice, it is a choice by farmers that is sensitive to climate. This paper develops a choice model of irrigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552727
This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the sixteen Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZs) of Africa. We combine net revenue from livestock and crops and regress total net revenue on a set of climate, soil, and socio-economic variables with and without country fixed effects....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561937
This paper uses a cross sectional method to analyze irrigation choice and crop choice across 8,405 farmers in 28 … reduce irrigation and shift toward oil crops, wheat, and especially cotton. In turn, farmers will shift away from potatoes …, rice, vegetables, and soybeans. However, adaptation will likely vary greatly from region to region. Policy makers should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521001