Climate Change and Agriculture: Farmer Adaptation to Extreme Heat

Fernando Aragon, Francisco Oteiza () and Juan Pablo Rud ()
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Francisco Oteiza: Institute for Fiscal Studies
Juan Pablo Rud: Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London and Institute of Fiscal Studies

Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University

Abstract: This paper examines how farmers adapt, in the short-run, to extreme heat. Using a production function approach and micro-data from Peruvian households, we find that high temperatures induce farmers to increase the use of inputs, such as land and domestic labor. This reaction partially attenuates the negative effects of high temperatures on output. We interpret this change in inputs as an adaptive response in a context of subsistence farming, incomplete markets, and lack of other coping mechanisms. We use our estimates to simulate alternative climate change scenarios and show that accounting for adaptive responses is quantitatively important.

Keywords: Climate Change; Agriculture; Adaptation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O12 O13 Q12 Q15 Q51 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-01
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