-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009). These findings have recently been challenged by Buhaug … our choice of historical time period and climate dataset. We demonstrate that Buhaug's proposed method of controlling for … climate data and to alternate codings of major war. Using Buhaug's preferred climate data under sound econometric assumptions …

climate change and extreme events on economic growth in Africa. Our results show that a 1 0 Celsius increase in temperature … approaches to climate change adaptation in Africa … employ the Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach which allows us to estimate both country level and Africa-wide impact of …

choice of farm type depends on the climate and agro-ecological zone of each farm. The paper also studies how farm type choice … livestock-only farming. The authors compare current decisions against future decisions as if the only change were climate change …. They focus on two climate scenarios from existing climate models: the Canadian Climate Centre scenario, which is hot and …