Rainfall Shocks, Resilience, and the Effects of Crop Biodiversity on Agroecosystem Productivity | Zendy

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Rainfall Shocks, Resilience, and the Effects of Crop Biodiversity on Agroecosystem Productivity

Author(s) -

Salvatore Falco,

JeanPaul Chavas

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

land economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.961

H-Index - 86

eISSN - 1543-8325

pISSN - 0023-7639

DOI - 10.3368/le.84.1.83

Subject(s) - agroecosystem , productivity , biodiversity , resilience (materials science) , psychological resilience , environmental science , crop productivity , abundance (ecology) , diversity (politics) , natural resource economics , agroforestry , crop , agriculture , ecology , economics , biology , physics , macroeconomics , psychology , sociology , anthropology , psychotherapist , thermodynamics

This paper investigates the dynamic effects of rainfall shocks on agroecosystems productivity. The analysis estimates a panel data model of cereal production in southern Italy. It documents the adverse effects of a reduction in rainfall on the agroecosystem productivity both in the short run and the long run. It investigates how increasing the level of spatial crop diversity can mitigate this negative impact. The empirical evidence shows how higher diversity supports resilience and maintains the system productivity under challenging climatic conditions

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