impact of climate change on China's agriculture
This article examines how expected changes in climate are likely to affect agriculture in China. The effects of temperature and precipitation on net crop revenues are analyzed using cross-sectional data consisting of both rainfed and irrigated farms. Based on survey data from 8,405 households across...
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Published in | Agricultural economics Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 323 - 337 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English Dutch |
Published |
Malden, USA
Blackwell Publishing Inc
01.05.2009
International Association of Agricultural Economists |
Series | Agricultural Economics |
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | This article examines how expected changes in climate are likely to affect agriculture in China. The effects of temperature and precipitation on net crop revenues are analyzed using cross-sectional data consisting of both rainfed and irrigated farms. Based on survey data from 8,405 households across 28 provinces, the results suggest that global warming is likely to be harmful to rainfed farms but beneficial to irrigated farms. The net impacts will be only mildly harmful at first, but the damages will grow over time. The impacts also vary by region. Farms in the Southeast will only be mildly affected but farms in the Northeast and Northwest will bear the largest damages. However, the study does not capture the indirect effects on farms of possible changes in water flow, which may be important in China. |
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Bibliography: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00379.x ArticleID:AGEC379 ark:/67375/WNG-DCZG8RKQ-G istex:C9268499D9AD944EF656CABED5882C25F16AC0D8 ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0169-5150 1574-0862 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00379.x |