Open AccessQuantifying the Effects of Climate Change on Crop Production
Author(s) -
Mbu Daniel Tambi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of social and economic statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2285-388X
DOI - 10.2478/jses-2019-0008
Subject(s) - climate change , production (economics) , agriculture , agricultural productivity , crop production , geography , environmental science , natural resource economics , agricultural economics , environmental resource management , economics , ecology , archaeology , biology , macroeconomics
This study attempts to analyze the impact of climate change on crop production using household consumption survey collected by the national institute of statistics and data imported from the department of statistics of ministry of agriculture and rural development. The main research question is: what is the relationship between climate change and crop production? Methodologically, used is made of instrumental variable and control function models to compute for the data. We realized that to a lesser extent climate change has an effect on agricultural production and more of a fishing phenomenon. In terms of policy, mainstreaming climate change adaptation into national development strategy and budgets could promote proactive engagement on the formulation and implementation of climate change adaptation strategy; this is a wise step towards increasing crop production and malnutrition reduction.