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Changing Farm Types and Irrigation as an Adaptation to Climate Change in Latin American Agriculture

This paper estimates a model of a farm that treats the choice of crops, livestock, and irrigation as endogenous. The model is composed of a multinomial choice of farm type, a binomial choice of irrigation, and a set of conditional land value funct...

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Main Authors: Mendelsohn, Robert, Seo, Niggol
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
AGRICULTURE
ANIMALS
BEEF
BEEF CATTLE
BREEDING
CARBON DIOXIDE
CHOICE OF CROPS
CLAY SOILS
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGES
CLIMATE IMPACTS
CLIMATE RESEARCH
CLIMATE SENSITIVITY
CLIMATE SYSTEM
CLIMATIC CHANGE
COMMERCIAL FARMERS
COMMODITY
CROP
CROP PRICES
CROPLAND
DHAL
DRAINAGE
ELASTICITY
FAO
FARM
FARM MODEL
FARMER
FARMERS
FARMING
FARMS
FERTILIZATION
FOOD SECURITY
FORESTRY
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
GLOBAL WARMING
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
GREENHOUSE GAS
INCOMES
INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURE
IPCC
IRRIGATION
LAND USE
LAND VALUE
LATIN AMERICAN
LIVESTOCK
LIVESTOCK FARMS
LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT
LIVESTOCK OPERATIONS
LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
MAIZE
MEAT
PLANTING
POTATOES
POTENTIAL IMPACTS
PRECIPITATION
RAINFALL
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
SOIL
SOIL TYPE
SOIL TYPES
SOILS
SOYBEANS
TEMPERATURE
VALUE FUNCTIONS
VEGETABLES
WATER RESOURCES
WHEAT
WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION
YIELDS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/03/7437347/changing-farm-types-irrigation-adaptation-climate-change-latin-american-agriculture
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7197

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