A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Agro-ecological Zones in Africa

This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the sixteen Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZs) of Africa. We combine net revenue from livestock and crops and regress total net revenue on a set of climate, soil, and socio-economic variables with and without country fixed effects. Alth...

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Main Authors:	Seo, S. Niggol, Mendelsohn, Robert, Dinar, Ariel, Hassan, Rashid, Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Agriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis Prices Q110 Climate Natural Disasters Global Warming Q540
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4934

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spelling	okr-10986-49342021-04-23T14:02:20Z A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Agro-ecological Zones in Africa Seo, S. Niggol Mendelsohn, Robert Dinar, Ariel Hassan, Rashid Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Agriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis Prices Q110 Climate Natural Disasters Global Warming Q540 This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the sixteen Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZs) of Africa. We combine net revenue from livestock and crops and regress total net revenue on a set of climate, soil, and socio-economic variables with and without country fixed effects. Although African crop net revenue is very sensitive to climate change, combined livestock and crop net revenue is more climate resilient. With the hot and dry CCC climate scenario, average damage estimates reach 27% by 2100, but with the mild and wet PCM scenario, African farmers will benefit. The analysis of AEZs implies that the effects of climate change will be quite different across Africa. For example, currently productive areas such as dry/moist savannah are more vulnerable to climate change while currently less productive agricultural zones such as humid forest or sub-humid AEZs become more productive in the future. 2012-03-30T07:30:27Z 2012-03-30T07:30:27Z 2009 Journal Article Environmental and Resource Economics 09246460 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4934 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Africa
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spellingShingle	Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Agriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis Prices Q110 Climate Natural Disasters Global Warming Q540 Seo, S. Niggol Mendelsohn, Robert Dinar, Ariel Hassan, Rashid Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Agro-ecological Zones in Africa
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description	This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the sixteen Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZs) of Africa. We combine net revenue from livestock and crops and regress total net revenue on a set of climate, soil, and socio-economic variables with and without country fixed effects. Although African crop net revenue is very sensitive to climate change, combined livestock and crop net revenue is more climate resilient. With the hot and dry CCC climate scenario, average damage estimates reach 27% by 2100, but with the mild and wet PCM scenario, African farmers will benefit. The analysis of AEZs implies that the effects of climate change will be quite different across Africa. For example, currently productive areas such as dry/moist savannah are more vulnerable to climate change while currently less productive agricultural zones such as humid forest or sub-humid AEZs become more productive in the future.
format	Journal Article
author	Seo, S. Niggol Mendelsohn, Robert Dinar, Ariel Hassan, Rashid Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep
author_facet	Seo, S. Niggol Mendelsohn, Robert Dinar, Ariel Hassan, Rashid Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep
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title	A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Agro-ecological Zones in Africa
title_short	A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Agro-ecological Zones in Africa
title_full	A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Agro-ecological Zones in Africa
title_fullStr	A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Agro-ecological Zones in Africa
title_full_unstemmed	A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Agro-ecological Zones in Africa
title_sort	ricardian analysis of the distribution of climate change impacts on agriculture across agro-ecological zones in africa
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A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Agro-ecological Zones in Africa

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