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1 Kurukulasuriya, P.; Mendelsohn, R.; Hassan, R.; Benhin, J.; Deressa, T.; Diop, M.; Eid, H. M.; Fosu, K. Y.; Gbetibouo, G.; Jain, S.; Mahamadou, A.; Mano, R.; Kabubo-Mariara, J.; El-Marsafawy, S.; Molua, E.; Ouda, S.; Ouedraogo, M.; Sene, I.; Maddison, D.; Seo, S. N.; Dinar, A. 2006. Will African agriculture survive climate change? The World Bank Economic Review, 20(3):367-388.
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http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/3/367.full.pdf+html
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Measurement of the likely magnitude of the economic impact of climate change on African agriculture has been a challenge. Using data from a survey of more than 9,000 farmers across 11 African countries, a cross-sectional approach estimates how farm net revenues are affected by climate change compared with current mean temperature. Revenues fall with warming for dryland crops (temperature elasticity of –1.9) and livestock (–5.4), whereas revenues rise for irrigated crops (elasticity of 0.5), which are located in relatively cool parts of Africa and are buffered by irrigation from the effects of warming. At first, warming has little net aggregate effect as the gains for irrigated crops offset the losses for dryland crops and livestock. Warming, however, will likely reduce dryland farm income immediately. The final effects will also depend on changes in precipitation, because revenues from all farmtypes increase with precipitation. Because irrigated farms are less sensitive to climate, where water is available, irrigation is a practical adaptation to climate change in Africa.
2 Crick, F.; Eskander, S. M. S. U.; Fankhauser, S.; Diop, M.. 2018. How do African SMEs [Small and Medium-sized Enterprises] respond to climate risks?: evidence from Kenya and Senegal. World Development, 108:157-168. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.015]
Climate change adaptation ; Small and medium enterprises ; Risk reduction ; Resilience ; Decision making ; Economic aspects ; Financing ; Sustainability ; Planning ; Models / Africa / Kenya / Senegal
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X18300974/pdfft?md5=084ad3a4cd54007c950a87fb0dba87c3&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X18300974-main.pdf
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This paper investigates to what extent and how micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries are adapting to climate risks. We use a questionnaire survey to collect data from 325 SMEs in the semi-arid regions of Kenya and Senegal and analyze this information to estimate the quality of current adaptation measures, distinguishing between sustainable and unsustainable adaptation. We then study the link between these current adaptation practices and adaptation planning for future climate change. We find that financial barriers are a key reason why firms resort to unsustainable adaptation, while general business support, access to information technology and adaptation assistance encourages sustainable adaptation responses. Engaging in adaptation today also increases the likelihood that a firm is preparing for future climate change. The finding lends support to the strategy of many development agencies who use adaptation to current climate variability as a way of building resilience to future climate change. There is a clear role for public policy in facilitating good adaptation. The ability of firms to respond to climate risks depends in no small measure on factors such as business environment that can be shaped through policy intervention.
3 Gannon, K. E.; Castellano, E.; Eskander, S.; Agol, D.; Diop, M.; Conway, D.; Sprout, E. 2022. The triple differential vulnerability of female entrepreneurs to climate risk in Sub-Saharan Africa: gendered barriers and enablers to private sector adaptation. WIREs Climate Change, 13(5):e793. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.793]
Climate change adaptation ; Risk ; Entrepreneurs ; Gender ; Role of women ; Private sector ; Vulnerability ; Climate resilience ; Small and medium enterprises ; Markets ; Institutions ; Access to information ; Technology ; Infrastructure ; Households ; Livelihoods / Africa South of Sahara
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https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/wcc.793
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The ability of businesses to adapt effectively to climate change is highly influenced by the external business enabling environment. Constraints to adaptive capacity are experienced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across sub-Saharan Africa, regardless of the gender of the business owner. However, gender is a critical social cleavage through which differences in adaptive capacity manifest and in Africa most entrepreneurs are women. We conduct a systematic review to synthesize existing knowledge on differential vulnerability of female entrepreneurs in Africa to climate risk, in relation to their sensitivity to extreme climate events and their adaptive capacity. We synthesize this literature using a vulnerability analysis approach that situates vulnerability and adaptive capacity within the context of the wider climate risk framework denoted in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. In doing so, we identify gendered barriers and enablers to private sector adaptation and suggest women entrepreneurs face a “triple differential vulnerability” to climate change, wherein they: (1) are often more sensitive to climate risk, as a result of their concentration in certain sectors and types of enterprises (e.g., micro SMEs in the agricultural sector in remote regions); (2) face additional barriers to adaptation in the business environment, including access to finance, technologies, (climate and adaptation) information and supportive policies; and (3) are also often concurrently on the frontline of managing climate risk at household levels. Since various forms of inequality often create compounding experiences of discrimination and vulnerability, we pay particular attention to how factors of differential vulnerability intersect, amplify, and reproduce.
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