Climate Change Impacts on Sustainable Maize Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review

Kelvin Mulungu and John Ng'ombe
Additional contact information
John Ng'ombe: Oklahoma State University

No f8pma, AgriXiv from Center for Open Science

Abstract: Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the commonly grown grain crops and remains a source of staple food and food security for most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). But climate change threatens agricultural potential in SSA thereby risking food security especially that most maize production is rain-fed in these countries. Thus, numerous studies have examined impacts of climate change on maize production and productivity resulting in several adaption strategies being promoted to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. But to the best of our knowledge, there has not been any studies in literature that provide a review of impacts of climate change on maize production and productivity in SSA. This chapter therefore provides a review of empirical climate change impacts on maize production and its productivity in SSA. We chose SSA because most countries in SSA are underdeveloped and therefore more vulnerable to climate change effects. This is important because this review will provide an easier access of such results for both scholars and policy makers in search of empirical impacts of climate change on maize production and productivity in SSA.

Date: 2019-11-29
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr and nep-env
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://osf.io/download/5e86941ad0e3540245b49c15/

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:osf:agrixi:f8pma

DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/f8pma

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in AgriXiv from Center for Open Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by OSF ().