Differential Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in African Cropland by Agro-Ecological Zones

Differential Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in African Cropland by Agro-Ecological Zones

This paper quantifies how African farmers have adapted their crop and irrigation decisions to their farm's current agro-ecological zone. The results indicate that farmers carefully consider the climate and other conditions of their farm when...

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Main Authors: Seo, Niggol, Mendelsohn, Robert, Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep, Dinar, Ariel, Hassan, Rashid
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
ALTERNATIVE CROPS
ARID ZONE
CHOICE OF CROPS
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGES
CLIMATE MODELS
CLIMATE VARIABLES
CLIMATIC CHANGE
CROP
CROP PRICES
CROPLAND
CROPS
CULTIVATION
DESERTS
ECOLOGICAL ZONE
ECOLOGICAL ZONES
ELECTRICITY
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
FAO
FARM
FARM LAND
FARMER
FARMERS
FARMS
FORESTRY
FORESTS
FRUITS
GLOBAL WARMING
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
GREENHOUSE GAS
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
GREENHOUSE GASES
GROUNDNUT
GROWING SEASON
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
IPCC
IRRIGATION
LATIN AMERICAN
LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT
MAIZE
MILLET
NUTS
PLANTING
POOR COUNTRIES
POTENTIAL IMPACTS
PRECIPITATION
RAINFALL
RAINFED AGRICULTURE
SAHARA
SINGLE CROP
SOIL
SOIL TYPES
SOILS
SORGHUM
SOUTH AMERICAN
SPACING
SPRING
TEMPERATURE
TEMPERATURE DATA
VEGETABLES
VULNERABLE SECTORS
WARMER CLIMATES
WATER AVAILABILITY
WHEAT
YIELDS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/04/9365682/differential-adaptation-strategies-climate-change-african-cropland-agro-ecological-zones
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6750

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/04/9365682/differential-adaptation-strategies-climate-change-african-cropland-agro-ecological-zones
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6750

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