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profitability of farms is a consequence of pronounced structural deficiencies due to a quite unfavourable workforce-land ratio on … farming over leaving the sector. Nevertheless, income from agriculture is to a substantial extent complemented by off … zwischen Beschäftigten in der Landwirtschaft ist wesentlich höher als der zwischen durchschnittlichen Arbeitnehmern in beiden …
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We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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The use of climate information in economic activities, typically provided by climate services, may serve as a possible … adaptation strategy to changing climate conditions. The present paper analyzes the value of climate services aimed at improving … for estimating the value of climate services by proposing a stochastic life-cycle model of a rural household which faces …
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We conduct an examination of the climate effect to analyze the historical dependence of grain production on … effect on agriculture. The most productive zones of the southern black soil belt is projected to face considerable declines … verändernde Temperaturen keinen einheitlichen Einfluss auf die Landwirtschaft haben. Die produktivsten Zonen im südlichen …
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climate conditions and land prices. The main advantage of this so-called hedonic approach is the consideration of the full … to forecast the impact of global climate change on the farming sector. The results show that a change of the temperature … winners of climate change at least in the short run. Maximum gains are estimated with a temperature increase of +1.0°C against …
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This study uses the concept of shadow prices for measuring the impacts of climate change. Estimation of a restricted … agricul-tural production process is significantly influenced by climate conditions. By linking this model with a climate …
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Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...
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agriculture is likely to be smooth. …
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There has been much discussion on climate change and its adverse effects on agriculture, including excessive loss of … food production. In regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture is the major source of household livelihoods … rich Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture dataset, I find that the intensity of chemical …
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Changing climate and weather patterns have resulted in reduced agricultural productivity in some parts of the world and … potentially propitious means of adaptation to changing climate conditions. Forecasts of extreme weather events are especially … valuable in resource-poor settings where climate-related vulnerability is high, such as for smallholder farmers in the …
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