We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a … less impact on global prices. These findings are useful for shaping climate-change adaptation as there is a clear variation … in the future climate-change projections of drought intensities and frequencies for different regions in New Zealand. …

profitability of farms is a consequence of pronounced structural deficiencies due to a quite unfavourable workforce-land ratio on … farming over leaving the sector. Nevertheless, income from agriculture is to a substantial extent complemented by off … zwischen Beschäftigten in der Landwirtschaft ist wesentlich höher als der zwischen durchschnittlichen Arbeitnehmern in beiden …

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 …

Changing climate and weather patterns have resulted in reduced agricultural productivity in some parts of the world and … potentially propitious means of adaptation to changing climate conditions. Forecasts of extreme weather events are especially … valuable in resource-poor settings where climate-related vulnerability is high, such as for smallholder farmers in the …

agriculture is likely to be smooth. …

-disaster vulnerability of farm households in the Philippines. We begin with the likelihood that climate change will increase the probability …

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 … for estimating the value of climate services by proposing a stochastic life-cycle model of a rural household which faces …