The Impacts of Disasters on African Agriculture: New Evidence from Micro-Data

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-10660

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The Impacts of Disasters on African Agriculture: New Evidence from Micro-Data

dc.contributor.author	Wollburg, Philip
dc.contributor.author	Markhof, Yannick
dc.contributor.author	Bentze, Thomas
dc.contributor.author	Ponzini, Guila
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-16T15:05:15Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-16T15:05:15Z
dc.date.issued	2024-01-16
dc.description.abstract	Disasters affect millions of people each year and cause economic losses worth many billions of dollars globally. Reporting on disaster impacts in research, policy, and news primarily relies on macro statistics based on disaster inventories. The macro statistics suggest that a relatively small share of disaster damages accrues in Africa. This paper, instead, uses detailed survey micro-data from six African countries to quantify disaster damages in one key sector: crop agriculture. The micro-data reveals much higher damages and more people affected than the macro statistics would indicate. On average, 36 percent of the agricultural plots in the sample suffer crop losses due to adverse climatic events. In the countries and time period analyzed, these losses reduced total crop production by an average of 29 percent. Importantly, many of these losses are underreported or undetected in key disaster inventories and therefore elude macro statistics. In the case of droughts and floods, the economic losses recorded in the micro-data are $5.1 billion higher than in the macro statistics, affecting 145 million to 170 million people, more than four times as many as the macro statistics suggest. The difference stems mostly from smaller and less severe but frequent adverse events that are not recorded in disaster inventories.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099631201092430123/IDU1a05387711b76b14abe1a96b151bc26fb28e2
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-10660
dc.identifier.uri	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40889
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Papers; 10660
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	AGRICULTURE
dc.subject	CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subject	CROP AGRICULTURE DISASTER RISK
dc.subject	SURVEY DATA
dc.subject	DISASTER LOSS AND DAMAGE
dc.subject	DROUGHT LOSSES
dc.subject	FLOOD LOSS
dc.title	The Impacts of Disasters on African Agriculture	en
dc.title.subtitle	New Evidence from Micro-Data	en
dc.type	Working Paper
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okr.crossref.title	The Impacts of Disasters on African Agriculture: New Evidence from Micro-Data
okr.date.disclosure	2024-01-09
okr.date.lastmodified	2024-01-09T00:00:00Z	en
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okr.doctype	Publications & Research
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-10660
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okr.region.administrative	Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
okr.region.administrative	Africa Western and Central (AFW)
okr.region.geographical	Africa
okr.topic	Agriculture::Agricultural Research
okr.topic	Agriculture::Commodity Risk Management
okr.topic	Agriculture::Climate Change and Agriculture
okr.unit	Strategy & Collaboratives (DECSC)
okr.unit	Development Data Group (DECDG)
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