The impact of climatic change adaptation on agricultural productivity in Central Chile: A stochastic production frontier approach

Lisandro Roco*, Boris Bravo-Ureta, Alejandra Engler, Roberto Jara-Rojas

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Adaptation to climate change is imperative to sustain and promote agricultural productivity growth, and site-specific empirical evidence is needed to facilitate policy making. Therefore, this study analyses the impact of climate change adaptation on productivity for annual crops in Central Chile using a stochastic production frontier approach. The data come from a random sample of 265 farms located in four municipalities with different agro-climatic conditions. To measure climate change adaptation, a set of 14 practices was used in three different specifications: binary variable, count and index; representing decision, intensity and quality of adaptation, respectively. The aforementioned alternative variables were used in three different stochastic production frontier models. Results suggest that the use of adaptive practices had a significant and positive effect on productivity; the practice with the highest impact on productivity was irrigation improvement. Empirical results demonstrate the relevance of climate change adaptation on farmers' productivity and enrich the discussion regarding the need to implement adaptation measures.

Idioma originalInglés
Número de artículo1648
PublicaciónSustainability (Switzerland)
Volumen9
N.º9
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2017
Publicado de forma externa

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Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This work was supported by a research grant from The Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP). The authors thank the farmers who courteously answered our survey and the Excellence Program of Interdisciplinary Research: Adaptation of Agriculture to Climate Change (A2C2) of The University of Talca.

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© 2017 by the authors.

Áreas temáticas de ASJC Scopus

  • Geografía, planificación y desarrollo
  • Energías renovables, sostenibilidad y medio ambiente
  • Ciencias ambientales (miscelánea)
  • Ingeniería energética y tecnologías de la energía
  • Gestión, supervisión, políticas y leyes

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