The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Asia

By R. Mendelsohn. 2014

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Asian agriculture is responsible for two thirds of global agricultural GDP. There have been numerous studies exploring the impact of climate change on crops in specific locations in Asia but no study has yet analyzed crops across the entire continent. This study relies on a Ricardian study of China that estimated climate coefficients for Chinese crops. These coefficients are then used to interpolate potential climate damages across the continent. With carbon fertilization, the model predicts small aggregate effects with a 1.5°C warming but damages of about US$84 billion with 3°C warming. India is predicted to be especially vulnerable.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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• Transcription Factors and Plants Response to Drought Stress: Current Understanding and Future Directions (2016, unknown): “Similarly in South Asia, where more than 75% of the farmers are dependent on rainfed agriculture, a damage of about US$ 84 billion is predicted owing to the global climate change (Mendelsohn, 2014).”