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The effect of policy leveraging climate change adaptive capacity in agriculture

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Agricultural adaptation to climate change is indispensable.However, the degree of adaptation depends on adaptive capacity levels and it only takes place if the appropriate resources are present.Cross-sectional climate response models ignore this requirement.This paper adapts the Ricardian method to control for a generic territorial adaptive capacity index.The results for a sample of over 60.000European farms show a significant non-linear positive relationship between adaptive capacity and climate responsiveness and that some regions in Europe can increase their climate responsiveness significantly.This confirms that improvement of adaptive capacity is an important policy tool to enhance adaptation.

Source: European Review of Agricultural Economics

DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbz007

Authors: Janka Vanschoenwinkel, Michele Moretti, Steven Van Passel

Institutions: Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Hasselt University, University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Antwerp

Language: English

Topic: Climate change impacts on agriculture

Subfield: Agronomy and Crop Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Climate action, Zero hunger

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $5,071