Economic and Policy Analysis of Climate Change

Resources

Policy Brief No.6

Policy briefs

Agriculture-charcoal interactions as determinants of deforestation rates: Implications for REDD+ design in Zambia.

Policy Brief No.5

Policy briefs

Diversification, climate risk and vulnerability to poverty in rural Malawi

Policy Brief No.5

Working papers

Diversification, climate risk and vulnerability to poverty in rural Malawi

Livelihood diversification and vulnerability to poverty in rural Malawi

Working papers

Climate variability, associated with farm-income variability, is recognized as one of the main drivers of livelihood diversification strategies in developing countries. Analysing determinants of livelihood diversification choices, to better understand household strategic behaviour in the event of climatic risks and other shocks, is important for the formulation of development policies in developing countries highly dependent on rain-fed agriculture, like Malawi.

Policy Brief No.4

Policy briefs

Value chain analyses for Shan tea and Arabica coffee under climate change in the northern mountainous region of Viet Nam.

Policy Brief No.3

Policy briefs

Climate change mitigation and smallholder agriculture in Zambia

Policy Brief No.2

Policy briefs

Smallholder productivity under climatic variability: Adoption and impact of widely promoted agricultural practices in Tanzania.

Policy Brief No.1

Policy briefs

Food security impact of agricultural technology adoption under climate change: Micro‐evidence from Niger

Adaptation to climate risk and food security. Evidence from smallholder farmers in Ethiopia

Working papers

This paper explores the impact of climate risk on the adoption of risk decreasing practices and other input choices and evaluates their impact on subjective and objective measures of household welfare (namely net crop income and a food insecurity indicator). The analysis is conducted primarily using a novel data set that combines data from the largescale and representative Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS), 2011/12 with historical climate and biophysical data. 

Food security and adaptation impacts of potential climate smart agricultural practices in Zambia

Working papers

This paper analyzes how a set of widely promoted agricultural practices affect crop yields and their resilience in Zambia using panel data from the Rural Incomes and Livelihoods Surveys (RILS). It provides important insights into the interplay between food security outcomes and climatic variables, and provides policy implications for targeted interventions to improve the productivity and the resilience of smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the face of climate change.