Is an integrated farm more resilient against climate change? A micro-econometric analysis of portfolio diversification in African agriculture

By S. Seo. 2010

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This paper examines whether an integrated farm that owns both crops and livestock is more resilient under global warming than a specialized farm in crops. Using around 9000 farm surveys across Africa, we explore how farmers choose one of the farm types and how the net revenue of each type varies across the range of climate in Africa. The results indicate that an integrated farm increases in number while a specialized farm decreases across Africa under climate predictions for 2060. The relative profitability of each system against each other also changes. An integrated farm becomes relatively more profitable over specialized farms half a century from now. The impacts of climate change on integrated farms range from 9% loss to 27% gain depending on climate scenarios. Behavioral models can capture portfolio diversification benefits that agro-economic models cannot measure.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Determinants of farm diversification in integrated crop–livestock farming systems in Ghana (2017, unknown): “This has been an evident rationale in different diversification studies (Abdulai and CroleRees, 2001; Barrett et al., 2001; Block and Webb, 2001; Smith et al., 2001; Niehof, 2004; Seo, 2010).”
Global water crisis and future food security in an era of climate change (2010, background): “Multiple cropping farms in Africa are predicted to be more resilient than specialized farms in the future, across the range of climate predictions for 2060 (Seo, 2009) though the design and large scale implementation of more resilient farms based on nontraditional species in arid areas will pose new”
Does Adoption Of Multiple Climate-Smart Practices Improve Farmers’ Climate Resilience? Empirical Evidence From The Nile Basin Of Ethiopia (2017, background): “Environment for Development Teklewold et al. 2 world (Seo and Mendelsohn 2008; Seo 2010; Kurukulasuriya et al. 2011).”