Holdings: Differential Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in African Cropland by Agro-Ecological Zones

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Differential Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in African Cropland by Agro-Ecological Zones

This paper quantifies how African farmers have adapted their crop and irrigation decisions to their farm's current agro-ecological zone. The results indicate that farmers carefully consider the climate and other conditions of their farm when...

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Main Authors:	Seo, Niggol, Mendelsohn, Robert, Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep, Dinar, Ariel, Hassan, Rashid
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ALTERNATIVE CROPS ARID ZONE CHOICE OF CROPS CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGES CLIMATE MODELS CLIMATE VARIABLES CLIMATIC CHANGE CROP CROP PRICES CROPLAND CROPS CULTIVATION DESERTS ECOLOGICAL ZONE ECOLOGICAL ZONES ELECTRICITY EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FAO FARM FARM LAND FARMER FARMERS FARMS FORESTRY FORESTS FRUITS GLOBAL WARMING GREENHOUSE EFFECT GREENHOUSE GAS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS GREENHOUSE GASES GROUNDNUT GROWING SEASON HOUSEHOLD SIZE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE IPCC IRRIGATION LATIN AMERICAN LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT MAIZE MILLET NUTS PLANTING POOR COUNTRIES POTENTIAL IMPACTS PRECIPITATION RAINFALL RAINFED AGRICULTURE SAHARA SINGLE CROP SOIL SOIL TYPES SOILS SORGHUM SOUTH AMERICAN SPACING SPRING TEMPERATURE TEMPERATURE DATA VEGETABLES VULNERABLE SECTORS WARMER CLIMATES WATER AVAILABILITY WHEAT YIELDS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/04/9365682/differential-adaptation-strategies-climate-change-african-cropland-agro-ecological-zones http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6750

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/04/9365682/differential-adaptation-strategies-climate-change-african-cropland-agro-ecological-zones
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6750