This paper considers the problem of a water management authority faced with the threat of a drought that hits at an … drought and relying on automatic adjustments through a zero marginal social net benefit condition, iii) an economically … optimal dynamic policy taking account of the threat of a drought. In particular, we show that the optimal pre-drought steady …

Evidence is found of two distinct patterns of response to the onset of the recent drought in rural Ethiopia …

current (same fiscal year) drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms' revenue and profit; this effect is most likely … attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In … general, dairy farmers "benefit" more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …