Rainfall shocks and inequality have heterogeneous effects on farmers' seed purchase decisions in East Africa

Weather shocks and poverty worsen seed and food insecurity in smallholder farming. Here we use rich and representative household-level data for Ethiopia, Malawi, and Tanzania, combined with historical monthly weather data to examine the effects of prior drought exposure and wealth (asset endowment)...

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Main Authors: Clifton Makate, Arild Angelsen, Stein Terje Holden, Ola Tveitereid Westengen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-01-01
Series:Climate Risk Management
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096323000827