Does adaptation to climate change provide food security? A micro-perspective from Ethiopia

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 825-842

  Di Falco, Salvatore ^a   Veronesi, Marcella ^b   Yesuf, Mahmud ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; climate change; endogenous switching; Ethiopia; food security; productivity; spatial data

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; SPATIAL DATA;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 79960361876     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aar006     Document Type: Review

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