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

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dc.creatorSeo, Niggol
dc.creatorMendelsohn, Robert
dc.creatorKurukulasuriya, Pradeep
dc.creatorDinar, Ariel
dc.creatorHassan, Rashid
dc.date2012-05-31T15:47:41Z
dc.date2012-05-31T15:47:41Z
dc.date2008-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:14:44Z
dc.descriptionThis 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 making these choices. These results are then used to forecast how farmers might change their irrigation and crop choice decisions if climate changes. The model predicts African farmers would adopt irrigation more often under a very hot and dry climate scenario but less often with a mild and wet scenario. However, farms in the deserts, lowland humid forest, or mid elevation humid forest would reduce irrigation even in the very hot and dry climate scenario. Area under fruits and vegetables would increase Africa-wide with the very hot and dry climate scenario, except in the lowland semi-arid agro-ecological zone. Millet would increase overall under the mild and wet scenario, but decline substantially in the lowland dry savannah and lowland semi-arid agro-ecological zones. Maize would be chosen less often across all the agro-ecological zones under both climate scenarios. Wheat would decrease across Africa. The authors recommend that care must be taken to match adaptations to local conditions because the optimal adaptation would depend on the agro-ecological zone and the climate scenario.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/04/9365682/differential-adaptation-strategies-climate-change-african-cropland-agro-ecological-zones
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/6750
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-4600
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/416426
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper No. 4600
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
dc.subjectALTERNATIVE CROPS
dc.subjectARID ZONE
dc.subjectCHOICE OF CROPS
dc.subjectCLIMATE
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGES
dc.subjectCLIMATE MODELS
dc.subjectCLIMATE VARIABLES
dc.subjectCLIMATIC CHANGE
dc.subjectCROP
dc.subjectCROP PRICES
dc.subjectCROPLAND
dc.subjectCROPS
dc.subjectCULTIVATION
dc.subjectDESERTS
dc.subjectECOLOGICAL ZONE
dc.subjectECOLOGICAL ZONES
dc.subjectELECTRICITY
dc.subjectEVAPOTRANSPIRATION
dc.subjectFAO
dc.subjectFARM
dc.subjectFARM LAND
dc.subjectFARMER
dc.subjectFARMERS
dc.subjectFARMS
dc.subjectFORESTRY
dc.subjectFORESTS
dc.subjectFRUITS
dc.subjectGLOBAL WARMING
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE EFFECT
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GASES
dc.subjectGROUNDNUT
dc.subjectGROWING SEASON
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SIZE
dc.subjectINTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectIPCC
dc.subjectIRRIGATION
dc.subjectLATIN AMERICAN
dc.subjectLIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectMAIZE
dc.subjectMILLET
dc.subjectNUTS
dc.subjectPLANTING
dc.subjectPOOR COUNTRIES
dc.subjectPOTENTIAL IMPACTS
dc.subjectPRECIPITATION
dc.subjectRAINFALL
dc.subjectRAINFED AGRICULTURE
dc.subjectSAHARA
dc.subjectSINGLE CROP
dc.subjectSOIL
dc.subjectSOIL TYPES
dc.subjectSOILS
dc.subjectSORGHUM
dc.subjectSOUTH AMERICAN
dc.subjectSPACING
dc.subjectSPRING
dc.subjectTEMPERATURE
dc.subjectTEMPERATURE DATA
dc.subjectVEGETABLES
dc.subjectVULNERABLE SECTORS
dc.subjectWARMER CLIMATES
dc.subjectWATER AVAILABILITY
dc.subjectWHEAT
dc.subjectYIELDS
dc.titleDifferential Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in African Cropland by Agro-Ecological Zones

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