Agriculture and climate change: Adaptation to climate change: Household impacts and institutional responses
Climate change will bring with it increased frequency of two types of natural disasters that affect agriculture and rural households: droughts and floods. It will also alter rainfall patterns, thereby changing farming practices, household behavior, and welfare. Households all over the world use a va...
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| author | Yamauchi, Futoshi Quisumbing, Agnes R. |
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| description | Climate change will bring with it increased frequency of two types of natural disasters that affect agriculture and rural households: droughts and floods. It will also alter rainfall patterns, thereby changing farming practices, household behavior, and welfare. Households all over the world use a variety of formal and informal mechanisms to manage risk and cope with unexpected events that negatively affect incomes, assets, or well-being. These mechanisms include both preparation for and responses to natural disasters. In low-income settings, where formal insurance and government supports are limited, households tend to rely on informal coping strategies, such as transfers from friends and neighbors, remittances, or investments in a diverse range of assets, from livestock to human capital. When disaster-related shock affects only a few households at a time, informal mechanisms can be quite effective in dealing with the situation. However, if the shock affects large areas simultaneously, small-scale coping mechanisms become ineffective. Research on several climate-related national disasters-the 1998 floods in Bangladesh, the 2001 drought in Ethiopia, and the 2001-02 failed maize harvest in Malawi-suggests that the upcoming negotiations in Copenhagen need to explicitly define, support, and expand policies that protect vulnerable populations from the expected increase in climate-change related weather events. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1618102025-11-06T04:19:43Z Agriculture and climate change: Adaptation to climate change: Household impacts and institutional responses Yamauchi, Futoshi Quisumbing, Agnes R. climate change Climate change will bring with it increased frequency of two types of natural disasters that affect agriculture and rural households: droughts and floods. It will also alter rainfall patterns, thereby changing farming practices, household behavior, and welfare. Households all over the world use a variety of formal and informal mechanisms to manage risk and cope with unexpected events that negatively affect incomes, assets, or well-being. These mechanisms include both preparation for and responses to natural disasters. In low-income settings, where formal insurance and government supports are limited, households tend to rely on informal coping strategies, such as transfers from friends and neighbors, remittances, or investments in a diverse range of assets, from livestock to human capital. When disaster-related shock affects only a few households at a time, informal mechanisms can be quite effective in dealing with the situation. However, if the shock affects large areas simultaneously, small-scale coping mechanisms become ineffective. Research on several climate-related national disasters-the 1998 floods in Bangladesh, the 2001 drought in Ethiopia, and the 2001-02 failed maize harvest in Malawi-suggests that the upcoming negotiations in Copenhagen need to explicitly define, support, and expand policies that protect vulnerable populations from the expected increase in climate-change related weather events. 2009 2024-11-21T09:58:26Z 2024-11-21T09:58:26Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161810 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Yamauchi, Futoshi; Quisumbing, Agnes R. 2009. Agriculture and climate change: Adaptation to climate change. 2020 Vision Focus Brief 16(12). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161810 |
| spellingShingle | climate change Yamauchi, Futoshi Quisumbing, Agnes R. Agriculture and climate change: Adaptation to climate change: Household impacts and institutional responses |
| title | Agriculture and climate change: Adaptation to climate change: Household impacts and institutional responses |
| title_full | Agriculture and climate change: Adaptation to climate change: Household impacts and institutional responses |
| title_fullStr | Agriculture and climate change: Adaptation to climate change: Household impacts and institutional responses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agriculture and climate change: Adaptation to climate change: Household impacts and institutional responses |
| title_short | Agriculture and climate change: Adaptation to climate change: Household impacts and institutional responses |
| title_sort | agriculture and climate change adaptation to climate change household impacts and institutional responses |
| topic | climate change |
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