Climate, Agriculture and Food

• Tác giả: Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 334.683 Cooperatives
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 167047

Tóm tắt

Agriculture is arguably the most climate-sensitive sector of the economy. Growing concerns about anthropogenic climate change have increased research interest in assessing its potential impact on the sector and in identifying policies and adaptation strategies to help the sector cope with a changing climate. This chapter provides an overview of recent advancements in the analysis of climate change impacts and adaptation in agriculture with an emphasis on methods. The chapter provides an overview of recent research efforts addressing key conceptual and empirical challenges. The chapter also discusses practical matters about conducting research in this area and provides reproducible R code to perform common tasks of data preparation and model estimation in this literature. The chapter provides a hands-on introduction to new researchers in this area.Comment: 100 pages, 14 figures, handbook chapter