An overview of methods used to study the impact of climate change on agriculture in Central America and the Andean Region

Timothy S. Thomas, Ana María Loboguerrero Rodríguez, Daniel Mason-D'Croz and Deissy Martínez Barón

No 1771, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This discussion paper introduces a series of studies on the effects of climate change on agriculture in Central America and the Andean region. It presents a coherent logic as to why climate change is important to the regions not only for agriculture but also regarding the issues of unemployment, food insecurity, and poverty. It also introduces the datasets that are used in the analyses for the seven countries featured in the series, including new composite gridded datasets that measure the direct effect of climate change on crop productivity.

Keywords: research methods; resource management; models; impact; economic development; economic modeling; crop yield; agriculture; malnutrition; nutrition; food security; unemployment; poverty; crop modelling; prices; climate change; South America; Central America; Americas; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-11-19
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