Open AccessClimate Change Driven Food Inflation in Ethiopia?
Author(s) -
Berhe Gebregewergs Hagos
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
asian journal of empirical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2306-983X
pISSN - 2224-4425
DOI - 10.18488/journal.1007/2018.7.1/1007.1.13.22
Subject(s) - univariate , inflation (cosmology) , econometrics , ceteris paribus , economics , sorghum , agricultural economics , distributed lag , regression analysis , statistics , mathematics , lag , multivariate statistics , geography , forestry , computer science , computer network , physics , theoretical physics , microeconomics
The research dealt with the relationships between temperature variability and price of food stuffs in Tigrai using 84 months collected time series data thereby applied a Univariate econometric tool and finite Distributed Lag Model in defining the variables and outcome of the study. As a result, the econometric regression analysis witnessed that a 1oC temperature rise contributed the average price of food stuffs such as barley price rose up by 80 percent, maize 186 percent, sorghum close to 275 percent, wheat 60 percent, and 170 percent in white Teff over the years, ceteris paribus.