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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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The Climate Challenge for Agriculture and the Value of Climate Services: Application to Coffee-Farming in Peru

Lechthaler, Filippo; Vinogradova, Alexandra - 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...

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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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Climate change and agriculture : farmer adaptation to extreme heat

Aragón, Fernando M.; Oteiza, Francisco; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2018

This paper examines how farmers adapt, in the short-run, to extreme heat. Using a production function approach and micro-data from Peruvian households, we find that high temperatures induce farmers to increase the use of inputs, such as land and domestic labor. This reaction partially attenuates...

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The Climate Challenge for Agriculture and the Value of Climate Services : Application to Coffee-Farming in Peru

Lechthaler, Filippo - 2016

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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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Labor Adaptation to Climate Variability in Eastern Africa

Dou, Xiaoya - 2016

As countries design climate change adaptation policies, it is important to understand how workers alter behavior in response to changes in temperature. Nonetheless, the impact of temperature on labor markets is poorly documented, especially in Africa. We address this gap by analyzing panel...

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Climate anomalies and international migration : a disaggregated analysis for West Africa

Martínez 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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