The economic impact of climate change on Kenyan crop agriculture: A Ricardian approach☆

By Jane w. Kabubo-Mariara, F. K. Karanja. 2007

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This paper measures the economic impact of climate on crops in Kenya. The analysis is based on cross-sectional climate, hydrological, soil, and household level data for a sample of 816 households, and uses a seasonal Ricardian model. Estimated marginal impacts of climate variables suggest that global warming is harmful for agricultural productivity and that changes in temperature are much more important than changes in precipitation. This result is confirmed by the predicted impact of various climate change scenarios on agriculture. The results further confirm that the temperature component of global warming is much more important than precipitation. The authors analyze farmers' perceptions of climate variations and their adaptation to these, and also constraints on adaptation mechanisms. The results suggest that farmers in Kenya are aware of short-term climate change, that most of them have noticed an increase in temperatures, and that some have taken adaptive measures.

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

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Global warming and livestock husbandry in Kenya: Impacts and adaptations☆ (2009, background): “Even in cases where farmers may want to adapt production to climate change, they may be constrained by poverty, lack of appropriate markets, access to credits, extensions services and training (Hassan and Nhemachena, 2008; Kabubo-Mariara and Karanja, 2007).”
Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan agriculture: assessing the evidence and rethinking the drivers (2014, background): “To overcome this issue, Seo and Mendelsohn (2008a, 2008b), Kurukulasuriya and Mendelsohn (2008b) and Di Falco and Veronesi (2013) developed the so-called structural Ricardian model, which explicitly models the underlying endogenous decisions by farmers.”
Exploring the relationship between climate change and rice yield in Bangladesh: An analysis of time series data (2012, background): “Some studies have recently investigated the economic effects of climate change on agricultural production in developing countries (Lansigan et al., 2000; Chang, 2002; Gbetibouo and Hassan, 2005; Kurukulasuriya and Ajwad, 2007; Kabubo-Mariara and Karanja, 2007; Haim et al., 2008; Sanghi and Mendelsoh”
Effects of climate variability and change on agricultural production: The case of small scale farmers in Kenya (2016, unknown): “Simulation results show that change in the temperature component of global warming is much more important than change in rainfall in Kenya which is consistent with the regression results and confirms findings reported by Kabubo-Mariara and Karanja (2007).”