This timely Handbook examines the effects of climate change on the agriculture industry. It also presents contemporary scholarship associated with recent explorations in climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in diverse agricultural contexts across the globe.
This timely
Handbook examines the effects of climate change on the agriculture industry. It also presents contemporary scholarship associated with recent explorations in climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in diverse agricultural contexts across the globe.
Expert contributors explore a wide range of adaptation measures and their quantification, providing insight into advancements already in place, from farm-level to state-level support. Chapters identify the industry’s need to further tackle climate change related issues, including increasing food demand, relationships with policymakers and opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Using different estimation approaches, precision levels and data sources, the authors apply various methodologies to measure the impact and value of adaptation in the agricultural sector.
This Handbook is valuable to scholars and students of environmental and agricultural economics and climate change. Its focus on impacts, adaptation, and mitigation makes this a vital resource for researchers and policy analysts working on climate change and agriculture in federal and state government agencies, as well as staff of international agencies and developmental organizations.
Contents
Foreword David Zilberman xx
1 Introduction to the Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation,
and Adaptation in Agriculture 1
Ariel Dinar and Robert Mendelsohn
PART I CLIMATE IMPACTS ON AGRICULTURE
2 Climate change and agriculture: a global meta-analysis of the Ricardian
literature 8
Allan Beltran, Saúl Basurto Hernández, Robert Mendelsohn, and Luis
Miguel Galindo
3 European climate change impacts on agriculture: an updated Ricardian
analysis 33
Charlotte Fabri and Steven Van Passel
4 Assessing the sensitivity of climate change impacts in agriculture to the
climateeconomy functional form 47
Joey Blumberg
5 Estimating the impact of droughts and floods on African farmers 70
Shun Chonabayashi and Theepakorn Jithitikulchai
6 Impacts of and seasonal adaptation to climate change: structural Ricardian
evidence from smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa 88
Babatunde Abidoye, Agha Ali Akram, Sudha Kannan, Pradeep
Kurukulasuriya, and Kehinde O. Omotoso
7 The impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity in OECD
countries 103
Mehrshad Radmehr and Richard Arhinful
PART II AGRICULTURAL ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Section 2.1 Crop choice, agroforestry, risk management
8 Agricultural adaptation to climate change: the imperative, the reaction,
and
the policy challenges 136
Lunyu C. Zhao, Xinran R. Wang, Chengcheng J. Fei, and Bruce A. McCarl
9 The economics of large-scale climate adaptation in Brazilian agriculture
168
Guilherme DePaula, Aryeverton Fortes de Oliveira, Vania Rosa
Pereira, Milena Oliveira, and Arthur Welle
10 Drought-tolerant crops as a drought adaptation tool: productivity, input
complementarity, and risk effects 200
Jonathan McFadden, Samuel Bailey, Daniel Bonin, Laura Paul, and
Jonathan Malacarne
11 Climate variability and risk management in maize production: adoption
strategies and implications for climate change in Southwestern Cameroon 230
Eric Jr. Bomdzele, Ernest L. Molua, Ajapnwa Akamin, Bizel-Bi. M.
Tichad, Mary E. Ngaiwi, and Joe E. Assoua
12 Climate change impacts and adaptation in the agricultural sector of the
Colorado River Basin: a hydro-economic analysis 257
Daniel Crespo, Mehdi Nemati, Ariel Dinar, Zachary Frankel, and
Nicholas Halberg
Section 2.2 Managing water as an adaptation
13 Effects of climate, land, and farm characteristics on irrigation
adoption,
water use, and conservation practices in the Southeastern US 279
Harikrishnan Santhosh and Jeffrey D. Mullen
14 Extreme soil moisture risk and subsurface drainage adoption: a structural
Ricardian analysis 303
Steven Wallander, Daniel Szmurlo, and Benjamin M. Gramig
15 Effects of climate change on farmers adaptive investment in irrigation
facilities: empirical evidence from national representative surveys in China
329
Jinxia Wang, Wei Chao, Kaixing Huang, Huang Chen, and Yimeng Li
PART III AGRICULTURE AS A TOOL FOR GHG MITIGATION
16 Markets in agriculture-based carbon offsets: current status and scaling
challenges 380
Rohit Jindal
17 How to address barriers to the adoption of agricultural carbon
sequestration 398
Michael A. Meneses, Miguel I. Gómez, David R. Just, Ravi Kanbur,
David R. Lee, and C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell
18 The growing challenges of climate change in Spanish agriculture: impacts,
mitigation, and adaptation 427
José Albiacand Encarna Esteban
19 Perception and willingness to support planned mitigation climate
policies:
the African farmers perspective 450
Perez L. Kemeni Kambiet, Ernest L. Molua, Victor Ongoma, Francis
E. Ndip, and Hachim El Ayoubi
PART IV GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS AND POLICIES
20 Could agricultural extension services help farmers adapt to climate
change? Evidence from smallholder farmers in Kenya, Mozambique, and
Nigeria 472
Agha Ali Akram, Esteban J. Quiñones, Abbie Turiansky, and Robert
Mendelsohn
21 Legislative responsiveness to climate change: politically driven
adaptation
in Californias agricultural sector 488
Paige Pellaton, Jonathan P. Colner, Alex Cohen, Cory Struthers,
Siddharth Kishore, Scott A. MacKenzie, Matthew S. Shugart, Mehdi
Nemati, and Ariel Dinar
22 Governance structure, adaptation options, and climate resilience of the
agricultural and water sectors of Morocco: pathway analysis in the context
of the Oum Er Rbia Basin 511
Rathinasamy Maria Saleth, Abdelkader Ait El Mekki, Upali Ananda
Amarasinghe, Giriraj Amarnath, and Youssef Brouziyne
PART V CONCLUSION
23 Conclusions of the Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation,
and Adaptation in Agriculture, and lessons learned 545
Robert Mendelsohn and Ariel Dinar
Edited by Ariel Dinar, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside and Robert O. Mendelsohn, Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forest Policy, Yale School of Environment, Yale University, USA
