Farmer Adaptation to Climate Variability in Subsaharan Africa

Status: abgeschlossen
Projektbeginn: 01.11.2012
Projektende: 31.05.2017
Schlagworte: Afrika, climatic change, nachhaltige Entwicklung, Nachhaltigkeit

Beschreibung

Food insecurity remains a critical challenge to the world's poor today. According to recent estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) one in nine persons in the world and about a quarter of those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are unable to meet their dietary energy requirements in 2014–2015. Although a range of factors influence food security around the world, local food production and the entitlements that are attached to it play a major role. Frequent climate shocks affect the access and availability dimensions of food security as most farm house-holds have limited possibilities of externalizing risk through formal insurance mechanisms. This is especially so in SSA where natural resources and rain-fed agriculture that are very sensitive to climate variability form the basis of livelihoods. Using a wide range of methods, previous studies have documented that the impact of climate variability on food security is largely negative for countries most dependent on the agricultural sector.

By means of bioeconomic agent-based simulation, this project seeks to evaluate the impacts of climate and price variability on smallholder productivity as well as the effectiveness of alternative adaptation strategies in various countries of SSA.

Beteiligte Personen

Beteiligte Einrichtungen

CIMMYT

Weitere Informationen

Agent-based simulation with MPMAS

Publikationen im Rahmen des Projekts

Can smallholder farmers adapt to climate variability, and how effective are policy interventions? Agent-based simulation results for Ethiopia
2017: Berger, T., Troost, C., Wossen, T., Latynskiy, E., Tesfaye, K., Gbegbelegbe, S.
Agent-based Modelling in the Agricultural Economics Tradition of Recursive Farm Modelling and Adaptive Micro-Systems
2012: Berger, T., Troost, C.
Social network effects on the adoption of sustainable natural resource management practices in Ethiopia
2013: Wossen, T., Berger, T., Mequaninte, T., Alamirew, B.
Forest dependence and income inequality in rural Ethiopia: evidence from Chilimo-Gaji community forest users
2014: Gatiso, T. T., Wossen, T.
Climate variability, consumption risk and poverty in semi-arid Northern Ghana: Adaptation options for poor farm households
2014: Wossen, T., Berger, T., Swamikannuh, N., Ramilan, T.
Agent-based Modelling of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Options in Agriculture
2014: Berger, T., Troost, C.
Social capital, risk preference and adoption of improved farm land management practices in Ethiopia
2015: Wossen, T., Berger, T., Di Falco, S.
Do land transfers to international investors contribute to employment generation and local food security? Evidence from Oromia Region, Ethiopia
2015: Alamirew, B., Grethe, H., Siddig, K. H. A., Wossen, T.
Climate variability, food security and poverty: Agent-based assessment of policy options for farm households in Northern Ghana
2015: Wossen, T., Berger, T.
Adaptation of farm-households to increasing climate variability in Ethiopia: Bioeconomic modeling of innovation diffusion and policy interventions
2015: Berger, T., Assfaw, T., Troost, C., Latynskiy, E., Tesfaye, K., Gbegbelegbe, S.
You are not alone: social capital and risk exposure in rural Ethiopia
2016: Wossen, T., Di Falco, S., Berger, T., McClain, W.,
A Pathway Forwards for the Social Capital Metaphor
2016: McClain, W.
Impacts of climate variability and food price volatility on household income and food security of farm households in East and West Africa
2017: Wossen, T., Berger, T., Haile, M., Troost, C.
Consistent evidence on the efficiency of maize production in southwest Ethiopia
2007: Sauer, J., Yilma, T.