Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies

By Molly E. Brown, B. McCusker. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Salvatore Di Falco
2. M. Veronesi
3. G. Kohlin
4. R. Mendelsohn
5. S. Seo
6. Jikun Huang
7. Jinxia Wang
8. C. Ringler

Citations in the corpus

• Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan agriculture: assessing the evidence and rethinking the drivers (2014, background): “408 S. Di Falco models converge in forecasting gloomy scenarios of increased temperatures for most of Ethiopia (Dinar et al., 2008).”
• The impact of climate change on China's agriculture. (2009, background): “Both studies found that increased 9 The importance of having detailed household data for Ricardian analyses rather than county-level data has already been recognized (e.g., Dinar et al., 2008).”
• Managing Environmental Risk in Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia (2014, background): “Most of climate models converge in forecasting scenarios of increased temperatures for most of Ethiopia (Dinar et al. 2008).”
• Measuring Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change: A Structural Ricardian Model of African Livestock Management (2008, methodology): “Data for this study come from a larger Global Environmental Facility (GEF)–World Bank project to study climate change impacts on agriculture in Africa (Dinar et al., 2008).”
• Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Low-Income Countries: Household Level Evidence from the Nile Basin, Ethiopia (2011, background): “This result is also consistent with the argument in the literature that climate change adaptation partially offsets the impact of climate change on food production, and exclusion of climate change adaptation in the analysis would overstate the impact of climate change on agricultural production (Din”
• Climate change and poverty in Africa (2009, background): “However, another study found that climate change could generate losses across African farms in the range of US$19–48 billion by 2100 (Dinar et al. 2008).”
• Does Adaptation to Climate Change Provide Food Security? A Micro-Perspective from Ethiopia (2011, unknown): “After the change in the government land rentals and labor hiring were 2 The Ricardian approach has been recently widely adopted in a series of country level analyses (see Dinar et al. 2008; Mendelsohn 2000).”
• Animal husbandry in Africa: Climate change impacts and adaptations (2008, background): “It is part of a larger study on the effect of climate change on agriculture (Dinar et al.,2008) coordinated by the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), University of Pretoria, South Africa.”