scholarly journals Climate Change Impacts on Yield and Financial Performance of Agro-Plantation Companies in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mahmudul Alam ◽  
Yusnidah Bt Ibrahim ◽  
Shahin Mia
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
El Niño ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Data Set

In Malaysia, there is a declining trend in agricultural productivity and crop yields due to various climate events in the recent years. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impacts of climate change, especially El Nino and flood, on the financial performance of Malaysian agro and plantation firms. The study used a panel data set on 33 Malaysian agro and plantation firms listed in Bursa Malaysia for the period of 2003 to 2016. A panel of regression models including GMM, Pooled OLS, Random Effect and Fixed Effect were used to analyze the data. The results show that both the El Nino and flood have significant negative impact on the firms’ financial performance as measured by ROA and ROE. The findings indicate that climate change results in reduction of agricultural production which reduces revenue and consequently the profit of the agro and plantation firms. The study findings might help the firm managers as well as policy makers to take into consideration the environmental factors that affect the overall financial health of the firms and take appropriate adaptation and mitigation policies to climate change at firm level and macro level in the country.

scholarly journals WAKTU TANAM PADI SAWAH RAWA PASANG SURUT PULAU KALIMANTAN DI TENGAH PERUBAHAN IKLIM

Agrin ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Nur Wakhid ◽  
Haris Syahbuddin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
El Niño ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Central Kalimantan ◽  
East Kalimantan ◽  
Tidal Swamp ◽  
High Level ◽  
Change Dynamic

Salah satu faktor penentu keberhasilan budidaya pertanian di lahan rawa pasang surut adalah waktu tanam.Waktu tanam tanaman pangan terutama padi mempunyai peranan yang sangat penting pada produksi akhir hasilpertanian. Di Indonesia saat ini dikenal 3 Musim Tanam, yaitu musim hujan, antara bulan November-Pebruari,musim kemarau I, antara bulan Maret-Juni; dan musim kemarau II, antara bulan Juli-Oktober. Akan tetapi,dinamika perubahan iklim seperti kekeringan (El Nino) dan kebasahan (La Nina) yang tidak menentu, berimbaspada pergeseran awal dan akhir musim tanam serta berdampak negatif bagi produktivitas tanaman padi. Adanyahal tersebut, analisis tentang waktu tanam padi di lahan rawa pasang surut Pulau Kalimantan perlu dilakukan.Waktu tanam di lahan pasang surut dimulai setelah jumlah air hujan mencukupi untuk melarutkan kadar besi yangada di dalam air. Realisasi tanam di Provinsi Kalimantan Barat umumnya terjadi pada Dasarian 28 (Oktober),Kalimantan Timur pada Dasarian 31 (November), serta Kalimantan Selatan dan Kalimantan Tengah pada Dasarian7 (Maret). Waktu tanam di lahan rawa pasang surut menunjukkan tingkat kekukuhan yang tinggi terhadapperubahan iklim, dimana waktu tanam tidak terlalu berubah selama 10 tahun pada kondisi iklim yang berbeda.Kata kunci: dasarian, luapan, air hujan, kekukuhanABSTRACTOne of the critical factors for agricultural cultivation in tidal swamp land is cropping time. Paddy croppingtime has a very important role in the final production of agricultural cultivation. Currently, there are 3 croppingtime in Indonesia, in the rainy season (November to February), first of dry season (March to June), and second ofdry season, (July to October). However, the climate change dynamic such as drought (El Nino) and wetness (LaNina), shifting the cropping time and resulting a negative impact on the productivity of paddy rice. Therefore, ananalysis of the rice cropping time needs to be done on Kalimantan tidal swampland area. Cropping time in thetidal swampland area began after the amount of rain was sufficient to dissolve the levels of iron in water. In WestKalimantan, the cropping time realization generally occurs in Dasarian 28 (October), while East Kalimantan onDasarian 31 (November), and South Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan on Dasarian 7 (March). Cropping timein tidal swamp land showed a high level of resistance to climate change, in which planting time did not changefor 10 years in different climatic conditions.Key words: decadal, tidal, rainwater, substantiality

scholarly journals Tendência de Longo Prazo das Chuvas Diárias no Sudoeste do Rio Grande do Sul: os Eventos Extremos e a Arenização (Long-Term Trend of Daily Rainfall in Southwest of Rio Grande do Sul: Extreme Events and the Sandization)

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 1100
Author(s):  
Fabio De Oliveira Sanches ◽  
Roberto Verdum ◽  
Gilberto Fisch
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Time Series ◽  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Daily Rainfall ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Dry Period ◽  
Data Set

O aumento na ocorrência de eventos climáticos extremos nas últimas décadas tem sido apontado como evidência de mudanças climáticas tanto no nível global como nos níveis regionais e locais. O objetivo deste trabalho foi reconstruir uma série temporal de dados pluviométricos diários (1928-2009) para a região de Alegrete (RS) e avaliar a tendência dos dias de chuva buscando evidências de mudanças climáticas, sobretudo, em relação desses eventos extremos com a dinâmica da arenização. Foram selecionados dados de quatro postos pluviométricos da Agência Nacional de Águas para o município de Alegrete (RS) e seu entorno, testada sua consistência, buscando reconstruir uma série de dados (1928-2009). Os 82 anos de dados pluviométricos diários foram organizados em dias com precipitações ≥ 1, 10, 20, 30, 50, 80, 100 mm e, também, o maior período seco em cada mês (CDD/mês) para avaliar suas tendências com o teste de Mann-Kendall. Os resultados demonstraram que, em abril, as chuvas fracas aumentaram significativamente no período, bem como a redução do maior período seco no mês. Precipitações extremas também apresentaram tendência de aumento nos meses de novembro e fevereiro. Tais eventos associam-se aos Complexos Convectivos de Mesoescala (CCM) e ao fenômeno El Niño Oscilação Sul (ENOS). O aumento da quantidade de dias com precipitações, sobretudo os dias com eventos extremos, possui relação com a arenização no sudoeste do Rio Grande do Sul, uma vez que o escoamento superficial assume destaque na dinâmica erosiva deste processo.   A B S T R A C T The increase of the climatic events during the last decades has been appointed as an evidence of the climate change at the regional and local level. The goal of this work was to reconstruct a time series of daily rainfall (1928-2009) for the region of Alegrete (RS) and evaluate the tendency of rainfall days searching for evidences of climate change, especially to associate these extremes events with the sandization dynamics. It has been selected 4 rain gages from the Agência Nacional de Águas for the Alegrete neighborhood and their consistency were tested in order to reconstruct a long time series (1929-2009). The data-set (82 years of daily rainfall) was organized in worksheets with rainfall higher than 1, 10, 20, 30, 50, 80 and 100 mm and the longest dry period in each month (CDD/month) were computed. The Mann-Kendall test for evaluate the tendency of the sample was also applied to the data-set. The results showed that, in April, the weak rain significantly increased during the period as well as there was a reduction of the dry period. Extremes rainfall also showed a tendency to increase for November and February. These events are associated with the Complex Convective Mesoscale Systems (CCM) and to El Nino Souther Oscillation Events (ENSO). The increase of number of days with extremes events has a relationship with the sandization at the southwest of Rio Grande do Sul, once the surface hidrology is important for the erosive dynamic of the processes. Keywords: Sandization, extreme rainfall, climate change, Mann-Kendall.  

Climate change impacts on crop yields in Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Climate Change Impacts

VARIABILIDAD CLIMÁTICA, CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO Y PESQUERÍAS EN EL ECUADOR.

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johnny Chavarría Viteri ◽  
Dennis Tomalá Solano
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Pacific Decadal Oscillation ◽  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
El Niño Southern Oscillation ◽  
El Nino Southern Oscillation ◽  
Current Action ◽  
Palabras Clave

La variabilidad climática es la norma que ha modulado la vida en el planeta. Este trabajo demuestra que las pesquerías y acuicultura costera ecuatorianas no son la excepción, puesto que tales actividades están fuertemente influenciadas por la variabilidad ENSO (El Niño-Oscilación del Sur) y PDO (Oscilación Decadal del Pacífico), planteándose que la señal del cambio climático debe contribuir a esta influencia. Se destaca también que, en el análisis de los efectos de la variabilidad climática sobre los recursos pesqueros, el esfuerzo extractivo también debe ser considerado. Por su parte, la acción actual de la PDO está afectando la señal del cambio climático, encontrándose actualmente en fases opuestas. Se espera que estas señales entren en fase a finales de esta década, y principalmente durante la década de los 20 y consecuentemente se evidencien con mayor fuerza los efectos del Cambio Climático. Palabras Clave: Variabilidad Climática, Cambio Climático, ENSO, PDO, Pesquerías, Ecuador. ABSTRACT Climate variability is the standard that has modulated life in the planet. This work shows that the Ecuadorian  fisheries and aquaculture are not the exception, since such activities are strongly influenced by ENSO variability (El Niño - Southern Oscillation) and PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation), considering that the signal of climate change should contribute to this influence. It also emphasizes that in the analysis of the effects of climate variability on the fishing resources, the extractive effort must also be considered. For its part, the current action of the PDO is affecting the signal of climate change, now found on opposite phases. It is hoped that these signals come into phase at the end of this decade, and especially during the decade of the 20’s and more strongly evidencing the effects of climate change. Keywords: Climate variability, climate change, ENSO (El Niño - Southern Oscillation) and PDO  (Pacific Decadal Oscillation); fisheries, Ecuador. Recibido: mayo, 2012Aprobado: agosto, 2012

Climate resilience in rural Zambia: evaluating farmers’ response to El Niño-induced drought

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Federica Alfani ◽  
Aslihan Arslan ◽  
Nancy McCarthy ◽  
Romina Cavatassi ◽  
Nicholas Sitko
Keyword(s):  
El Niño ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Diversification Strategies ◽  
Household Incomes ◽  
Rural Zambia

Abstract This paper aims at identifying whether and how sustainable land management practices and livelihood diversification strategies have contributed to moderating the impacts of the El Niño-related drought in Zambia. This is done using a specifically designed survey called the El Niño Impact Assessment Survey, which is combined with the Rural Agricultural Livelihoods Surveys, as well as high resolution rainfall data at the ward level over 34 years. This unique panel data set allows us to control for the time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity to understand the impacts of shocks like El Niño, which are expected to become more frequent and severe as a result of climate change. We find that maize yields were substantially reduced and that household incomes were only partially protected from the shock thanks to diversification strategies. Mechanical erosion control measures and livestock diversification emerge as the only strategies that provided yield and income benefits under weather shock.

scholarly journals Modeling the Impact of Climate Changes on Crop Yield: Irrigated vs. Non-Irrigated Zones in Mississippi

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 2249
Author(s):  
Sadia Alam Shammi ◽  
Qingmin Meng
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Crop Yield ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Information Criterion ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Maximum Temperature ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
The Impact

Climate change and its impact on agriculture are challenging issues regarding food production and food security. Many researchers have been trying to show the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on agriculture using different methods. In this study, we used linear regression models to assess the impact of climate on crop yield spatially and temporally by managing irrigated and non-irrigated crop fields. The climate data used in this study are Tmax (maximum temperature), Tmean (mean temperature), Tmin (minimum temperature), precipitation, and soybean annual yields, at county scale for Mississippi, USA, from 1980 to 2019. We fit a series of linear models that were evaluated based on statistical measurements of adjusted R-square, Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). According to the statistical model evaluation, the 1980–1992 model Y[Tmax,Tmin,Precipitation]92i (BIC = 120.2) for irrigated zones and the 1993–2002 model Y[Tmax,Tmean,Precipitation]02ni (BIC = 1128.9) for non-irrigated zones showed the best fit for the 10-year period of climatic impacts on crop yields. These models showed about 2 to 7% significant negative impact of Tmax increase on the crop yield for irrigated and non-irrigated regions. Besides, the models for different agricultural districts also explained the changes of Tmax, Tmean, Tmin, and precipitation in the irrigated (adjusted R-square: 13–28%) and non-irrigated zones (adjusted R-square: 8–73%). About 2–10% negative impact of Tmax was estimated across different agricultural districts, whereas about −2 to +17% impacts of precipitation were observed for different districts. The modeling of 40-year periods of the whole state of Mississippi estimated a negative impact of Tmax (about 2.7 to 8.34%) but a positive impact of Tmean (+8.9%) on crop yield during the crop growing season, for both irrigated and non-irrigated regions. Overall, we assessed that crop yields were negatively affected (about 2–8%) by the increase of Tmax during the growing season, for both irrigated and non-irrigated zones. Both positive and negative impacts on crop yields were observed for the increases of Tmean, Tmin, and precipitation, respectively, for irrigated and non-irrigated zones. This study showed the pattern and extent of Tmax, Tmean, Tmin, and precipitation and their impacts on soybean yield at local and regional scales. The methods and the models proposed in this study could be helpful to quantify the climate change impacts on crop yields by considering irrigation conditions for different regions and periods.

scholarly journals Climate Change Implications Found in Winter Extreme Sea Level Height Records around Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 377
Author(s):  
Dong Eun Lee ◽  
Jaehee Kim ◽  
Yujin Heo ◽  
Hyunjin Kang ◽  
Eun Young Lee
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Thermal Expansion ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Storm Tracks ◽  
Daily Maximum ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Level Height

The impact of climatic variability in atmospheric conditions on coastal environments accompanies adjustments in both the frequency and intensity of coastal storm surge events. The top winter season daily maximum sea level height events at 20 tidal stations around South Korea were examined to assess such impact of winter extratropical cyclone variability. As the investigation focusses on the most extreme sea level events, the impact of climate change is found to be invisible. It is revealed that the measures of extreme sea level events—frequency and intensity—do not correlate with the local sea surface temperature anomalies. Meanwhile, the frequency of winter extreme events exhibits a clear association with the concurrent climatic indices. It was determined that the annual frequency of the all-time top 5% winter daily maximum sea level events significantly and positively correlates with the NINO3.4 and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) indices at the majority of the 20 tidal stations. Hence, this indicates an increase in extreme event frequency and intensity, despite localized temperature cooling. This contradicts the expectation of increases in local extreme sea level events due to thermal expansion and global climate change. During El Nino, it is suggested that northward shifts of winter storm tracks associated with El Nino occur, disturbing the sea level around Korea more often. The current dominance of interannual storm track shifts, due to climate variability, over the impact of slow rise on the winter extreme sea level events, implies that coastal extreme sea level events will change through changes in the mechanical drivers rather than thermal expansion. The major storm tracks are predicted to continue shifting northward. The winter extreme sea level events in the midlatitude coastal region might not go through a monotonic change. They are expected to occur more often and more intensively in the near future, but might not continue doing so when northward shifting storm tracks move away from the marginal seas around Korea, as is predicted by the end of the century.

The Effect of Climate Change on the Health of Aged People in Ibadan, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
O. J. Kehinde ◽  
A. T. Adeboyejo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Maximum Temperature ◽  
Climatic Parameters ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Aged People ◽  
Improvement Programs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Component Scores ◽  
Ibadan Nigeria

Susceptibility to ill health among aged people had been linked with climate change impacts in rapidly urbanising cities. Therefore, this study evaluates to the vulnerability of aged people to the health impacts of climate change in Ibadan, Nigeria. Data on clinically diagnosed climate related diseases (CRDs) (2000 – 2014) among aged people (>50 years) and temperature and rainfall parameters (1970 – 2007) in Ibadan were obtained and projected to year 2050. Also, the relationship between the climatic parameters and incidence of the five most prevalent CRDs were analysed using multiple regression. The increasing trend of mean maximum temperature (r = 0.47) and rainfall (r = 0.15) is associated with incidences of hypertension (34.4%), respiratory diseases (21.2%) and diarrhoea (14.3%) among aged people (> 60 years), mostly male folk (67.2%). The linear composite of disease communalities extracted 84.0% variance of the data set with the following component scores: skin disease (0.98), hypertension (0.96), respiratory disease (0.92), diarrhoea (0.89) and malaria (0.45). Further, CRDs (R2 = 27%, p = 0.012) in Ibadan among aged people could be significantly attributed to influences of climatic parameters. The study suggests building aged peoples’ resilience to emanating impacts through health and nutritional improvement programs, and re-introduction of neighbourhood parks and gardens.

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