Framing vulnerability and coffee farmers’ behaviour in the context of climate change adaptation in Nicaragua

Sonia Quiroga, Cristina Suarez, Juan Diego Solís and Pablo Martinez-Juarez

World Development, 2020, vol. 126, issue C

Abstract: This paper analyses coffee producer’s vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change in Nicaragua. By its geographical position, Nicaragua is one of the countries most affected by climate change, and coffee production is expected to vastly shrink in some critical areas, suitability being reduced by up to 40% in the country. This paper analyses farmer’s perceptions and vulnerability indicators to find which indicators are linked to farmers’ perceived capacity to adapt to climate change, paying special attention to the issue of whether farmers perceive they have any capacity at all to adapt.

Keywords: Climate change adaptive capacity; Vulnerability indicators; Mesoamerica; Coffee production; Heckman selection model; Behavioral economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104733

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