How African Agriculture Can Adapt to Climate Change? - A Counterfactual Analysis from Ethiopia

Falco, Salvatore Di; Veronesi, Marcella

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“…A second important limitation of our study is that we do not distinguish among different types of adaptation. Di Falco and Veronesi (2013) find that, in Ethiopia, adaptation based upon a portfolio of strategies is significantly more effective than the adoption of strategies in isolation. Arguably some strategies may be more successful than others in dealing with risk exposure (e.g., changing crop varieties, implementing water harvesting technologies).…”

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“…Climate change is projected to further exacerbate these issues (Parry et al 2005;Lobell et al 2008;Schlenker and Lobell 2010;World Bank 2010). Thus, the implementation of adaptation strategies can be very important (Mendelsohn and Dinar 2003;Di Falco and Veronesi 2013). For instance, farmers may face drier soil, and therefore they implement investments in soil conservation so that soil moisture may be retained.…”

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“…This is due to climatic variability, such as precipitation shortage or increased evapotranspiration (Gadisso 2007). Moreover, a number of papers have looked at either the impact of climate change on productivity or farm revenues (e.g., Di Falco et al 2011;Di Falco and Veronesi 2013) as well as the determinants of adaptation (Deressa et al , 2011Di Falco et al 2011).…”

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Managing Environmental Risk in Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

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This study investigates the impact of climate change adaptation on farm households' downside risk exposure in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. The analysis relies on a moment-based specification of the stochastic production function. We use an empirical strategy that accounts for the heterogeneity in the decision on whether to adapt or not, and for unobservable characteristics of farmers and their farm. We find that past adaptation to climate change (i) reduces current downside risk exposure, and subsequently the risk of crop failure; (ii) would have been more beneficial to the non-adapters if they adapted, in terms of reduction in downside risk exposure; and (iii) is a successful risk management strategy that makes the adapters more resilient to climatic conditions. JEL Classification D80 • Q18 • Q54This book chapter appeared previously on environmental and resource economics 2014 vol 57(4):553-577.

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“…For instance, it has been widely acknowledged that the effects of climate change and variability are not gender neutral. Further, there is far-reaching literature on adaptation to climate change in the domain of developing countries (see Grothmann & Patt 2005;Deressa et al 2009;Below et al 2012;Bryan et al 2013;Di Falco & Veronesi 2013;Pérez et al 2014). Nonetheless, these studies often miss out more nuanced gender aspects, or their empirical approach only permits comparing male-and femaleheaded households.…”

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Gender Differences in Climate Change Perceptions and Adaptation Strategies: An Intra-Household Analysis from Rural Kenya

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIt has been widely acknowledged that the effects of climate change are not gender neutral. However, existing studies on adaptation to climate change mainly focus on a comparison of male-headed and female-headed households. Aiming at a more nuanced gender analysis, this study examines how husbands and wives within the same household perceive climate risks and group-based approaches as coping strategies. The data stem from a unique selfcollected and intra-household survey involving 156 couples in rural Kenya, where husbands and wives were interviewed separately. Options for adapting to climate change closely interplay with husbands' and wives' roles and responsibilities, social norms, risk perceptions and access to resources. Consequently, a higher percentage of wives adopt crop-related strategies, whereas husbands employ livestock-and agroforestry-related strategies. Besides, there are gender-specific climate information needs, gendered trust of information and preferred channels of information dissemination. Further, it turned out that group-based approaches benefit husbands and wives differently. Group-based approaches provide avenues for diversifying livelihoods and managing risks for wives, while they are pathways for sharing climate information and adaptation options for husbands. Social groups help husbands and wives to enhance their welfare through accumulating vital types of capital such as livestock, durable assets, human, natural, financial and social capital. The findings suggest that designing gender-sensitive policies and institutionalizing gender in climate change adaptation and mitigation frameworks, are vital. Policy interventions that rely on group-based approaches must reflect gender perspectives on the ground in order to amplify men's and women's specific abilities to manage risks and improve welfare outcomes in the wake of accelerating climate change.

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“…It requires that at least one variable that is in the adoption equation is not in the outcome equations. These IV based approaches can even be extended to handle multivalued or multiple treatments as in the case of a multinomial treatment effects model (Deb and Trivedi, 2006b) and the multinomial endogenous switching model (Di Falco and Veronesi, 2013). In the multiple treatment case, the adoption decisions are modelled in a multinomial framework whereas the outcome equations are modeled using OLS.…”

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Econometric analysis of improved maize varieties and sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) in Eastern Zambia

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Maize is the principle food staple in Zambia, providing both food and income for most of the rural populace. It is estimated that over 50% of the daily caloric intake is derived from maize;with an average consumption of over 85kg per year. Because of the importance of maize, a number of improved maize varieties and sustainable crop management practices have been developed to increase its productivity. Despite these improved agricultural technologies being available for some time now, few studies have analyzed the adoption impacts of these technologies on the economic well-being of smallholder farmers in Zambia. To fill this gap in the literature, this thesis assesses the adoption and impacts of improved maize varieties and sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) on the welfare of smallholder farmers in the Eastern province of Zambia. To accomplish this objective, we use a number of novel econometric approaches and a comprehensive household survey data from a sample of 810 rural households and 3788 plots. First, the findings suggest that the adoption of improved maize varieties is determined by a whole range of factors that include land cultivated, education of the household head and the total asset holdings of the household. Second, the results show that the adoption of improved maize varieties is associated with higher levels of income, food security, child nutritional status and lower levels of poverty. Third, the counterfactual analysis applied in this thesis shows that if non-adopters had adopted improved maize varieties, they would have realized higher levels of welfare than they currently have. Fourth, the results show that adoption of improved maize alone has greater impacts on maize yields, but given the high cost of inorganic fertilizer that limits the profitability of adoption of improved maize, higher household incomes are associated rather with the adoption of multiple SAPs.

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How African Agriculture Can Adapt to Climate Change? - A Counterfactual Analysis from Ethiopia

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Managing Environmental Risk in Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Managing Environmental Risk in Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Gender Differences in Climate Change Perceptions and Adaptation Strategies: An Intra-Household Analysis from Rural Kenya

Econometric analysis of improved maize varieties and sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) in Eastern Zambia

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