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Measuring Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change: A Structural Ricardian Model of African Livestock Management

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dc.contributor.authorSeo, S. Niggol
dc.contributor.authorMendelsohn, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:30:27Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:30:27Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThis article develops a new cross-sectional methodology that explicitly incorporates adaptation into an analysis of the impacts of climate change. The methodology examines how a farmer will change choices of species and number to adapt to climate. The approach is applied to study Africa, where the impacts of climate change are expected to be the most severe. The results indicate that in warmer places, African farmers switch from beef cattle to more heat-tolerant goats and sheep. In wetter places, farmers switch from cattle and sheep to goats and chickens. The results indicate that large commercial livestock operations specializing in beef cattle will be hard hit from climate change whereas small farmers who can easily substitute to goats and/or sheep will be more resilient.en
dc.identifier.citationAgricultural Economics
dc.identifier.issn01695150
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4933
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Agriculture
dc.subjectNatural Resources
dc.subjectEnergy
dc.subjectEnvironment
dc.subjectOther Primary Products O130
dc.subjectMicro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets Q120
dc.subjectClimate
dc.subjectNatural Disasters
dc.subjectGlobal Warming Q540
dc.titleMeasuring Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change: A Structural Ricardian Model of African Livestock Managementen
dc.title.alternativeAgricultural Economicsen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.doctypeJournal Article
okr.externalcontentExternal Content
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum1553
okr.journal.nbpages151-165
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.geographicalAfrica
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okr.relation.associatedurlhttp://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0169-5150&site=1
okr.volume38
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