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Egg-Timer: Climate Change and Agriculture 2 Location: D-111 Session Chair: Weicheng Jiang, LSE | |
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Food security benefits of more accurate weather forecasts in the context of a changing climate 1: London School of Economics, United Kingdom; 2: Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change; 3: RAU Climate change is making it increasingly difficult for farmers, particularly those in lower-income countries reliant on rainfed agriculture, to avoid crop losses, with implications for food security and livelihoods more broadly. In this paper we provide robust evidence from Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Bangladesh, that farmers with access to more accurate weather forecasts are less likely to report crop losses. Our analysis further highlights one plausible mechanism by which farmers are able to act on weather forecasts, by changing their labour hiring decisions during the harvest season in response to forecasts of extreme weather. Our findings suggest that investment in improved weather forecasting can improve agricultural productivity, which has the potential to reduce food insecurity. | |