Using panel data to estimate the effect of rainfall shocks on smallholders food security and vulnerability in rural Ethiopia

Climatic Change

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 185-206

  Demeke, Abera Birhanu ^a   Keil, Alwin ^a   Zeller, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENT VARIABLES; ETHIOPIA; FIXED EFFECTS; FOOD INSECURITY; FOOD SECURITY; HOUSEHOLD FOOD; HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; PANEL DATA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; RAINFED; REGRESSION MODEL; RISK EXPOSURE; RISK REDUCTIONS; RURAL HOUSEHOLDS; TIME VARIANT; WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WELFARE IMPLICATIONS;

AGRICULTURE; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

FOOD SUPPLY;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOD SECURITY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INVESTMENT; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LIVESTOCK; NUMERICAL MODEL; OWNERSHIP; PANEL DATA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SMALLHOLDER; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; VULNERABILITY; WATER RESOURCE;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 80052265192     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9994-3     Document Type: Article

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