Economywide impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ecological Economics

Volumn 93, Issue , 2013, Pages 150-165

  Calzadilla, Alvaro ^a   Zhu, Tingju ^b   Rehdanz, Katrin ^a,c   Tol, Richard S J ^d,e,f   Ringler, Claudia ^b  

^a KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Computable general equilibrium; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGROMETEOROLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; FOOD MARKET; FOOD PRODUCTION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; RAINFED AGRICULTURE;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84879566637     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.05.006     Document Type: Article

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