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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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Posh spice or scary spice? : resource booms, wealth, and human capital across ages

Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2024

We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...

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Empirically estimated impacts of climate change on global crop production via increasing precipitation-evapotranspiration extremes

Raitzer, David A.; Drouard, Joeffrey - 2024

Although agriculture is often considered vulnerable to climate change, recent gridded crop growth modelling …

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Agricultural productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean and other world regions : an analysis of climatic effects, convergence and catch-up

Lachaud, Michée Arnold; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; Ludena, … - 2015

This study estimates Climate Adjusted Total Factor Productivity (CATFP) for agriculture in Latin America and Caribbean …

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Estimating the impact of climate change on agricultural production : accounting for technology heterogeneity across countries

Exenberger, Andreas; Pondorfer, Andreas; Wolters, Maik H. - 2014

frequency of droughts. The latter two effects are particularly strong in Sub-Sahara Africa where low-tech rain-fed agriculture …

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Estimating the impact of climate change on agricultural production : accounting for technology heterogeneity across countries

Exenberger, Andreas; Pondorfer, Andreas; Wolters, Maik H. - 2014

frequency of droughts. The latter two effects are particularly strong in Sub-Sahara Africa where low-tech rain-fed agriculture …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354719

Food and Energy (In)Security : Evidence from Agricultural Investments in Selected Emerging Economies

Zolin, Bruna - 2013

Land grabbing appears to be driven by a variety of factors that seem destined to expand in the long term. The aim of this paper is to highlight the behavior and the role of China (a net food importer country) and India (which is facing a problem of energy insecurity) in the current escalation of...

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Frontier Analysis and Agricultural Typologies

Maruyama Sasaki, Eduardo - 2018

PARI to identify micro-regional level opportunities, bottlenecks and investment gaps based on the concept of the production … shocks that affect agricultural production (weather, prices, etc.), the investment, production decisions and technological … different set of investment recommendations for development in each type of region, including decisions regarding investments in …

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Climate Change and Agriculture : A Computable General Equilibrium Approach

Zeshan, Muhammad - 2018

This paper quantifies the impact of climate change on agriculture in East Asian and South Asian countries using a CGE …

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Integrated assessment of biodiversity and agriculture

Gars, Johan; Spiro, Daniel; Engström, Gustav; Lade, … - 2025

economy. To capture the main causes of biodiversity loss and the economic harm from it, we focus on agriculture and its …

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