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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kahsay, Goytom Abraha
• Hansen, Lars Gårn

Titel

The effect of climate change and adaptation policy on agricultural production in Eastern Africa

Ist Teil von

• Ecological economics, 2016-01, Vol.121, p.54-64

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We estimate the production function for agricultural output in Eastern Africa incorporating climate variables disaggregated into growing and non-growing seasons. We find a substantial negative effect of within growing season variance of precipitation. We simulate predicted climate change for the region and find a resulting output reduction of between 1.2% and 4.5%. Our simulation also demonstrates substantial potential for economic benefits from mitigating the effects of within growing season precipitation variability through conventional technologies such as flexible planting and rainwater harvesting on the same scale as the potential loss from predicted climate change. •We estimate the production function for agricultural output in Eastern Africa.•We find negative effect of within growing season precipitation variability.•We simulate predicted climate change for the region.•We explore the potential for mitigating this effect via conventional technologies.