Climate, crops, and forests: a pan-tropical analysis of household income generation
Rural households in developing countries depend on crops, forest extraction and other income sources for their livelihoods, but these livelihood contributions are sensitive to climate change. Combining socioeconomic data from about 8,000 smallholder households across the tropics with gridded precipi...
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2018
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| author | Wunder, Sven Noack, F. Angelsen, A. |
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| description | Rural households in developing countries depend on crops, forest extraction and other income sources for their livelihoods, but these livelihood contributions are sensitive to climate change. Combining socioeconomic data from about 8,000 smallholder households across the tropics with gridded precipitation and temperature data, we find that households have the highest crop income at 21°C temperature and 2,000 mm precipitation. Forest incomes increase on both sides of this agricultural maximum. We further find indications that crop income declines in response to weather shocks while forest income increases, suggesting that households may cope by reallocating inputs from agriculture to forests. Forest production may thus be less sensitive than crop production to climatic fluctuations, gaining comparative advantage in extreme climates and under weather anomalies. This suggests that well-managed forests might help poor rural households to cope with and adapt to future climate change. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1124962024-11-15T08:53:06Z Climate, crops, and forests: a pan-tropical analysis of household income generation Wunder, Sven Noack, F. Angelsen, A. income households climate forests Rural households in developing countries depend on crops, forest extraction and other income sources for their livelihoods, but these livelihood contributions are sensitive to climate change. Combining socioeconomic data from about 8,000 smallholder households across the tropics with gridded precipitation and temperature data, we find that households have the highest crop income at 21°C temperature and 2,000 mm precipitation. Forest incomes increase on both sides of this agricultural maximum. We further find indications that crop income declines in response to weather shocks while forest income increases, suggesting that households may cope by reallocating inputs from agriculture to forests. Forest production may thus be less sensitive than crop production to climatic fluctuations, gaining comparative advantage in extreme climates and under weather anomalies. This suggests that well-managed forests might help poor rural households to cope with and adapt to future climate change. 2018-06 2021-03-08T08:34:50Z 2021-03-08T08:34:50Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/112496 en Limited Access Cambridge University Press Wunder, S., Noack, F., Angelsen, A. 2018. Climate, crops, and forests: a pan-tropical analysis of household income generation. Environment and Development Economics, 23 (3): 279-297. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X18000116 |
| spellingShingle | income households climate forests Wunder, Sven Noack, F. Angelsen, A. Climate, crops, and forests: a pan-tropical analysis of household income generation |
| title | Climate, crops, and forests: a pan-tropical analysis of household income generation |
| title_full | Climate, crops, and forests: a pan-tropical analysis of household income generation |
| title_fullStr | Climate, crops, and forests: a pan-tropical analysis of household income generation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate, crops, and forests: a pan-tropical analysis of household income generation |
| title_short | Climate, crops, and forests: a pan-tropical analysis of household income generation |
| title_sort | climate crops and forests a pan tropical analysis of household income generation |
| topic | income households climate forests |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/112496 |
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