A structural ricardian analysis of climate change impacts and adaptations in African agriculture (English)

This paper develops a Structural Ricardian model to measure climate change impacts that explicitly models the choice of farm type in African agriculture. This two stage model first estimates the type of farm chosen and then the conditional incomes of each farm type after removing selection biases. The results indicate that increases in temperature encourage farmers to adopt mixed farming and avoid specialized farms such as crop-only or livestock-only...
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Seo,Sungno Niggol; Mendelsohn,Robert.

A structural ricardian analysis of climate change impacts and adaptations in African agriculture (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4603 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/467731468203352332

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