Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan agriculture: assessing the evidence and rethinking the drivers

Di Falco, Salvatore

doi:10.1093/erae/jbu014

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Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan agriculture: assessing the evidence and rethinking the drivers

ContributorsDi Falco, Salvatore

Published inEuropean Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 41, no. 3, p. 405-430

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Open Access - Licence nationale Oxford University Press

Publication date2014

Abstract

In this paper, after a review of the evolution of the literature on climate change economics in agriculture, I present some evidence of the impact of different moments of the distribution of rainfall on farmers risk aversion. It is found that while more rainfall is negatively associated with the probability of observing risk aversion, rainfall variability is positively correlated. This result highlights an important behavioural dimension of climatic factors.

Keywords

climate change
adaptation
risk
Ethiopia

Affiliation

Faculté d'économie et de management / Institute of Economics and Econometrics

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DI FALCO, Salvatore. Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan agriculture: assessing the evidence and rethinking the drivers. In: European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2014, vol. 41, n° 3, p. 405–430. doi: 10.1093/erae/jbu014

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DOI : 10.1093/erae/jbu014

Commercial URLhttp://erae.oxfordjournals.org/content/41/3/405

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