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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
An empirical assessment of the impact of climate change on smallholder agriculture in Cameroon
Global and Planetary Change, Volume 67, No. 3-4, Year 2009
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Rainfed tropical agriculture provides important avenue to ascertain the consequences of climate change. This is because reliability of rainfall accounts for much of the variation in agriculture in the region. In addition, the region is already hot and vulnerable from further warming. This study shows from a climate change experiment using Ricardian method in Cameroon that a 7% decrease in precipitation would cause net revenues from crops to fall US$2.86 billion and a 14% decrease in precipitation would cause net revenue from crops to fall US$3.48 billion. Increases in precipitation would have the opposite effect on net revenues. For a 2.5 °C warming, net revenues would fall by US$0.79 billion, and a 5 °C warming would cause net revenues to fall US$1.94 billion. This highlights that agriculture is not only limited by seasonality and magnitude of moisture availability, but also it is significantly impacted by climate change. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Molua, Ernest Lytia
Cameroon, Buea
University of Buea
Statistics
Citations: 84
Authors: 1
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.02.006
ISSN:
09218181
Research Areas
Environmental
Study Approach
Quantitative
Study Locations
Cameroon