TY - BOOK ID - 135560456 TI - A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts On Agriculture Across Agro-Ecological Zones in Africa AU - Seo, S. Niggol AU - Dinar, Ariel AU - Hassan, Rashid AU - Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep AU - Mendelsohn, Robert PY - 2008 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Climate KW - Climate Change KW - Common Property Resource Development KW - Environment KW - Forestry KW - Global Environment KW - Global warming KW - Greenhouse gas KW - Greenhouse gas emissions KW - Greenhouse gases KW - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change KW - IPCC KW - Rural Development KW - Soil UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135560456 AB - This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the 16 agro-ecological zones in Africa using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization combined with economic survey data from a Global Environment Facility/World Bank project. Net revenue per hectare of cropland is regressed on a set of climate, soil, and socio-economic variables using different econometric specifications "with" and "without" country fixed effects. Country fixed effects slightly reduce predicted future climate related damage to agriculture. With a mild climate scenario, African farmers gain income from climate change; with a more severe scenario, they lose income. Some locations are more affected than others. The analysis of agro-ecological zones implies that the effects of climate change will vary across Africa. For example, currently productive areas such as dry/moist savannah are more vulnerable to climate change while currently less productive agricultural zones such as humid forest or sub-humid zones become more productive in the future. The agro-ecological zone classification can help explain the variation of impacts across the landscape. ER -