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Long-Range Forecasts As Climate Adaptation : Experimental Evidence From Developing-Country Agriculture
Burlig, Fiona; Jina, Amir; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are unable to tailor their planting decisions to the coming season, and underinvest in profitable inputs. Accurate, long-range forecasts enable farmers to optimize for the season...
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Valuing meteorological services in resource-constrained settings : application to smallholder farmers in the Peruvian Altiplano
Brausmann, Alexandra; Flubacher, Moritz; Lechthaler, Filippo - 2019
Changing climate and weather patterns have resulted in reduced agricultural productivity in some parts of the world and put pressure on global food security. Availability and improved quality of meteorological information is seen as a potentially propitious means of adaptation to changing...
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Weathering shocks : the effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa
Nsabimana, Aimable - 2022
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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Impacts of Adaptation to Climate Change on Farmers’ Income in the Savana Region of Togo
Mikémina, Pilo - 2018
West African farmers are among those most likely to suffer from climate change, partly due to the agro-climatic characteristics of the regional system and to their limited scope for coping with shocks. Climate change adaptation has thus been touted as a necessary path for rural poverty reduction...
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The Climate Challenge for Agriculture and the Value of Climate Services : Application to Coffee-Farming in Peru
Lechthaler, Filippo - 2016
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 agricultural productivity through a reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001166
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Environmental Change, Water Scarcity and Farmers' Differentiated Adaptations : Evidence from the Three Gorges Dam
Chen, Ting; Liu, Chong; Ma, Sen - 2021
constrained by access to credit, made up their income loss from agriculture by allocating 4.5-6 times more labor days (equivalent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238385
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Climate anomalies and international migration : a disaggregated analysis for West Africa
Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Milusheva, Sveta; Reichert, … - 2021
Migration is one of the channels West African populations can use to adjust to the negative impacts of climate change. Using novel geo-referenced and high-frequency data, this study investigates the extent to which soil moisture anomalies drive international migration decisions within the region...
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Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal : disentangling the interdependencies
Arslan, Aslıhan; Egger, Eva-Maria; Mane, Erdgin; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
an ex-ante measure. In this paper, we disentangle the direct effect of weather shocks on income from agriculture from the …
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Climate anomalies and international migration : a disaggregated analysis for West Africa
Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Milusheva, Sveta; Reichert, … - 2021 - This version: February 2021
West Africa is vulnerable to negative impacts of climate change and a potential channel of adjustment is migration. Using novel geo-referenced and high-frequency data, we investigate the extent to which soil moisture anomalies have an impact on international migration within the region and...
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Rural households in a changing climate
Baez, Javier E.; Kronick, Dorothy; Mason, Andrew D. - 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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