Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Production and Food Supply in Africa

Climate change is a global problem affecting agricultural production, a good adaptation strategy for this phenomena should be sought for increase agricultural production. The study was conducted in Nigeria to assess the Impact of Climate Change on root and tuber crops production among farmers in Nigeria. Secondary data were used for the study, they were collected from NRCRI Umudike and other individual publications. The result shows that climate change had negative impact on root and tubers crops production including potato. Adaptation of Agriculture to climate change in the areas of crop and animal production, post harvest activities and capacity building, divers friction of livelihood sources through the use of different farming methods and improved agricultural practices will help to reduce the impact of climate change. Examples are establishment of forestry, generation of improved and disease resistance crop varieties addition of value into agricultural products and post harvest activities for climate change adaptation and sustainable development.

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Economic impacts of climate change and variability on agricultural production in the Middle East and North Africa region

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management ◽

10.1108/ijccsm-07-2015-0100 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 463-472 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Mohamed Alboghdady ◽

Salah E. El-Hendawy

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

North Africa ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Mena Region ◽

Content Type ◽

Impact Of Climate Change ◽

Climate Change And Variability ◽

Cent Increase ◽

The Impact ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of climate change and variability on agricultural production in Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) where the deleterious impacts of climate change are generally projected to be greatest. Design/methodology/approach The study used a production function model using Fixed Effect Regression (FER) analysis and then using marginal impact analysis to assess the impact of climate change and variability on agricultural production. Therefore, the study utilized panel data for the period 1961-2009 pooled from 20 countries in MENA region. Findings Results showed that 1 per cent increase in temperature during winter resulted in 1.12 per cent decrease in agricultural production. It was also observed that 1 per cent increase in temperature variability during winter and spring resulted in 0.09 and 0.14 per cent decrease in agricultural production, respectively. Results also indicated that increasing precipitation during winter and fall season and precipitation variability during winter and summer seasons had negative impact. The estimated parameters of square temperature and precipitation indicated that climate change has significant nonlinear impacts on agricultural production in MENA region. Originality/value Despite there are many studies on the impact of climate change on agricultural production, there is a lack of publications to address the economic impact of both climate change and variability on agricultural production in MENA region. Thus, these results are more comprehensive and more informative to policymakers than the results from field trials.

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Potential impact of climate change on world food supply

Nature ◽

10.1038/367133a0 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 367 (6459) ◽

pp. 133-138 ◽

Cited By ~ 975

Author(s):

Cynthia Rosenzweig ◽

Martin L. Parry

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Food Supply ◽

World Food ◽

Impact Of Climate Change ◽

World Food Supply ◽

Potential Impact

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Diversification or specialisation? Farmers' cropping strategy and economic performance under climate change in China

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management ◽

10.1108/ijccsm-03-2021-0031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Mingze Wu ◽

Yueji Zhu ◽

Qi Yang

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Technical Efficiency ◽

Economic Performance ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Adaptation Strategies ◽

Content Type ◽

Impact Of Climate Change ◽

Changing Climate ◽

The Impact

Purpose Farmers' adaptation strategies in agricultural production are required to minimise the negative impact of climate change on a nation's food production in developing countries. Based on the panel data of the provincial level in China from 2000 to 2017, this study aims to analyse the changing climate over recent years and farmers' adaptation strategy in terms of cropping in agricultural production. Design/methodology/approach This study uses Simpson's diversity index (SDI) to measure the degree of crop diversity planted by farmers and evaluate the influence of climate change on farmers' cropping strategy using the fixed-effect model. Further, the authors estimate the impact of farmers' cropping strategy on their economic performances in two aspects including yields and technical efficiency of crops. Findings The empirical results show that the overall climate appears a warming trend. Different from farmers in some other countries, Chinese farmers tend to adopt a more specialised cropping strategy which can significantly improve the technical efficiency and yields of crops in agriculture. In addition, as a moderating role, the specialised cropping can help farmers to alleviate the negative impact of climate change on technical efficiency of their crops. Originality/value First, previous studies showed that the changing climate influenced farmers' adaptation strategies, while most studies focussed on multiple adaptation strategies from the farm-level perspective rather than cropping strategy from the nation-level perspective. Second, the present study investigates how the cropping strategy affects the economic performance (in terms of the technical efficiency and crop yields) of agricultural production. Third, the stochastic frontier analysis method is used to estimate the technical efficiency. Fourth, this study explores the moderating effect between farmers' cropping strategy and technical efficiency by introducing an interaction item of SDI and accumulated temperature.

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The impact of climate change on food security and agricultural production in the Pak Phanang River Basin, Thailand

2017 6th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics ◽

10.1109/agro-geoinformatics.2017.8047028 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Wichai Pantanahiran

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Food Security ◽

River Basin ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Impact Of Climate Change ◽

The Impact

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