How can African agriculture adapt to climate change? A counterfactual analysis from Ethiopia

Land Economics

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 743-766

  Di Falco, Salvatore ^a,b   Veronesi, Marcella ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; SPATIAL DATA; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ETHIOPIA; NILE BASIN;

EID: 84886904325     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.89.4.743     Document Type: Article

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