Worsening environmental conditions threaten to undermine progress in reducing rural poverty. Little is known, however, about the prospects for farmer adaptations to mitigate this …
R Fishman - Environmental Research Letters, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change is expected to lead to more uneven temporal distributions of precipitation, but the impacts on human systems are little studied. Most existing, statistically based …
I Dallmann, K Millock - CESifo Economic Studies, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We match climate data to migration data from the 1991 and 2001 Indian Censuses to investigate the impact of climate variability on internal migration. The article makes four …
V Taraz - Environment and Development Economics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Estimating the potential impacts of climate change requires understanding the ability of agents to adapt to changes in their climate. This paper uses panel data from India spanning …
B Viswanathan, KSK Kumar - Environment and Development …, 2015 - cambridge.org
This study explores three-way linkage between weather, agricultural performance and internal migration in India at the state and district level using census data. The estimations …
We analyse the effects of rainfall and temperature on yields of paddy and millets (pearl millet and sorghum) in India for the period 1966–1999, at the district level. Unlike other studies, we …
S Conradt, R Finger, R Bokusheva - Agricultural economics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A new approach for weather index‐based insurance design based on Quantile Regression (QR) to condition the yield‐index dependency is developed and compared to standard …
R Guntukula, P Goyari - Journal of Public Affairs, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The present study explores the effect of climate change on maize yields and its variance in Telangana utilizing Just–Pope production function, spanning the period 1956–2015. The …
Riven with scientific uncertainty, contending interests, and competing interpretations, the problem of climate change poses an existential challenge. For India, such a challenge is …