Too Little Too Late : Welfare Impacts of Rainfall Shocks in Rural Indonesia

• Tác giả: Roy S Katayama
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 509.59 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 309923
• Chủ đề: 1. agriculture; 2. rainfall shocks; 3. rice; 4. social protection; 5. welfare

Tóm tắt

 We use regression analysis to assess the potential welfare impacts in rural Indonesia of two types of shock: a delay in monsoon onset
  and a significant shortfall in rain during the 90-day post-onset period. Focusing on households with family farm businesses, we find that a delay in monsoon onset does not have a significant effect on the welfare of rice farmers. However, rice farm households located in areas exposed to low rainfall following the monsoon are negatively affected. Such households appear to be able to protect their food expenditure in the face of weather shocks, but at the expense of their non-food expenditure. We also use propensity score matching to identify community programs that might moderate the impact of this type of shock. We find that access to credit and public works projects has the strongest moderating effect. This is an important consideration for the design and implementation of adaptation strategies.