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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177019
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Role of Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture : A Survey-Based Analysis of Bihar, India
Das, Saheli; Mehra, Meeta Keswani; Paulson, Jones - 2022
Climate change is having adverse implications for agriculture yields in India, especially in the agriculture …-dependent economy of the state of Bihar. The agricultural productivity in Bihar is one of the lowest in the country. Bihar is also less …) has been gaining eminence in transitioning agriculture towards sustainability. This research fills the gap to tease out …
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Do Inherent Ability and Community Networks Matter in Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change : A Case Study of Bihar, India
Mehra, Meeta Keswani; Das, Saheli; Paulson, Jones - 2022
Climate change is having adverse implications for agriculture yields in India, especially in the agriculture …-dependent economy of the state of Bihar. The agricultural productivity in Bihar is one of the lowest in the country. Bihar is also less …) has been gaining eminence in transitioning agriculture towards sustainability. This research fills the gap to tease out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294028
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Forecasting profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009782148
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Climate change vulnerability in agriculture sector : indexing and mapping of four southern Indian states
Sridevi, G.; Jyotishi, Amalendu; Mahapatra, Sushanta; … - 2014
Agriculture is the sector most vulnerable to climate change due to its high dependence on climate and weather … conditions. Climate change is a main challenge for agriculture, food security and rural livelihoods for millions of people in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725702
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Does Climate Change Make Foodgrain Yields More Unpredictable? Evidence from India
Verma, Saumya - 2020
How would climate change affect India's agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839358
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Forecasting profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Chris - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369064
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El Niño and Indian droughts : a scoping exercise
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014
Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to lead to droughts. In the last 14 years, out of the four El Niño years globally, three resulted in Indian droughts. Since the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404683
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Indian agriculture under climate change : the competing effect of temperature and rainfall anomalies
Gallé, Johannes; Katzenberger, Anja - 2023
The latest generation of global climate models robustly projects that the summer monsoon rainfall in India will significantly increase in the 21st century due to global warming and that rainfall anomalies will occur more often. This raises the question of the impact of these changes on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228493
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The economic impacts of temperature on industrial productivity : evidence from Indian manufacturing
Sudarshan, Anant; Tewari, Meenu - 2014
through their impact on worker productivity. We utilize a multi-year panel of manufacturing plants in India, as well as daily … worker productivity measures from selected case-study units to show that (i) manufacturing output decreases at high … temperatures by 1-3 percent per degree celsius; (ii) this reduction appears to be driven by declining worker productivity. Our …
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