Search Results - subject:"Climate Variability"

Optimum fisheries management under climate variability : evidence from artisanal marine fishing in Ghana

Akpalu, Wisdom; Dasmani, Isaac; Normanyo, Ametefee K. - 2014

rising temperature is decreasing the carrying capacity. As a result, an optimum tax on harvest must reflect climate … variability, as well as the congestion externality. …

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Tenure insecurity, climate variability, and renting-out decisions among female smallholder farmers in Ethiopia

Akpalu, Wisdom; Bezabih, Mintewab - 2014

Land tenure arrangements in Africa are generally skewed in favour of males. Compared to males, female plot owners face complex sets of constraints and systemic high tenure insecurity which culminate in low yields. In order to obtain better returns, some females rent their plots to males, but...

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The health impacts of severe climate shocks in Colombia

Mata, Dolores de la; Valencia-Amaya, Mauricio G. - 2014

This paper studies the link between severe weather shocks in Colombia and municipality-level incidence of dengue and malaria. The unexpectedly high variability of the 2010 rainfalls relative to previous periods and their regional heterogeneity are exploited as an identification strategy. A...

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Climate variability and international migration : the importance of the agricultural linkage

Cai, Ruohong; Feng, Shuaizhang; Pytliková, Mariola; … - 2014

While there is considerable interest in understanding the climate-migration relationship, particularly in the context of concerns about global climatic change, little is known about underlying mechanisms. We analyze a unique and extensive set of panel data characterizing annual bilateral...

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Optimum fisheries management under climate variability: Evidence from artisanal marine fishing in Ghana

Akpalu, Wisdom; Dasmani, Isaac; Normanyo, Ametefee K. - 2013

rising temperature is decreasing the carrying capacity. As a result, an optimum tax on harvest must reflect climate … variability, as well as the congestion externality. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319840

Climate Variability, Child Labour and Schooling: Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margin

Colmer, Jonathan - 2013

examine the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive … increased climate variability increases the number of hours spent on farming activities while reducing the number of hours spent … climate variability on enrolment decisions or educational outcomes, suggesting that households may spread the burden of labour …

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CLIMATE CHANGE, VARIABILITY AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN ZIMBABWE"S RURAL COMMUNITIES

GUKURUME, SIMBARASHE - In: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences 14 (2013) 3, pp. 89-100

, some of the widely reported signs of climate variability in Bikita included late and unpredictable rains, high temperatures … plunging them into food insecurity and abject poverty. It emerged in the study that some of effects of climate variability felt …

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Decadal Climate Variability: Economic Implications In Agriculture And Water In The Missouri River Basin

Fernandez, Mario Andres - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013

Economic research on decadal climate variability (DCV) is scarce. DCV refers to ocean-related climate influences of …

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Climate Change, Agriculture, Poverty and Livelihoods: A Status Report

Ninan, K N; Bedamatta, Satyasiba - eSocialSciences - 2013

This paper assesses the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture covering a cross section of crops, seasons and regions based on existing literature. The study notes that the impact of climate change will vary across crops, regions and climate change scenarios. [ISEC Working Paper 277]....

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Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration

Dallmann, Ingrid; Millock, Katrin - eSocialSciences - 2013

Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a … indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized precipitation index. [CES Working Papers]. …

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