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Responses to Weather and Climate : A Cross-Section Analysis of Rural Incomes. / Noack, Frederik.
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- Author/Creator:
- Noack, Frederik
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climate change.
- Climate change and environment.
- Climate change economics.
- Climate change mitigation and green house gases.
- Environment.
- Environmental economics & policies.
- Forests.
- Macroeconomics and economic growth.
- Poverty.
- Poverty reduction.
- Rural livelihoods.
- Rural poverty reduction.
- Local Subjects:
- Climate change.
- Climate change and environment.
- Climate change economics.
- Climate change mitigation and green house gases.
- Environment.
- Environmental economics & policies.
- Forests.
- Macroeconomics and economic growth.
- Poverty.
- Poverty reduction.
- Rural livelihoods.
- Rural poverty reduction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (49 pages)
- Other Title:
- Responses to Weather and Climate
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2015.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- How much do poor rural households rely on environmental extraction from natural ecosystems? And how does climate variability impact their livelihoods? This paper sheds light on these two questions with household income data from the Poverty and Environment Network pantropical data set, combined with climate data for the past three decades. The study finds that extraction of wild resources (from natural forests, bushlands, fallows, et cetera) provides on average as much income (about 27 percent) as crops across the smallholder sample. The cross-section data on past reactions to household self-perceived economic shocks and observed production reactions to climate anomalies can, respectively, provide hints about livelihood vulnerability to current climate variability, which is likely to worsen with climate change. Forest extraction did not figure among the most favored response strategies to households' self-perceived economic shocks, but households undertake subtle substitutions in sector production in response to weather anomalies that accentuate suboptimal climatic conditions for cropping. By relying more on forest extraction and wages, households compensate quite successfully for declining crop incomes. This paints a cautiously optimistic picture about fairly flexible rural livelihood reactions to current climate variability, and featuring forests as potentially important in household coping strategies.
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