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Research output: Working paper
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Weather shocks, maize yields and adaptation in rural China
AU - Jiliang, Ma Jiliang
AU - Maystadt, Jean-Francois
PY - 2016/1
Y1 - 2016/1
N2 - Based on panel household data collected between 2004 and 2010, we assess the impact of weather shocks on maize yields in the two main producing regions in China, the Northern spring maize zone and the Yellow-Huai Valley summer maize zone. Temperature, drought, wet conditions, and precipitations have detrimental effects on maize yields in the two maize zones.Nonetheless, the magnitude of those effects appears to be low compared to other parts of the world. Adaptation seems to be key in the region where the largest impact is estimated. On the contrary, the lower impact found in the other region, the Yellow-Huai Valley summer maize zone, is low but likely to intensify.
AB - Based on panel household data collected between 2004 and 2010, we assess the impact of weather shocks on maize yields in the two main producing regions in China, the Northern spring maize zone and the Yellow-Huai Valley summer maize zone. Temperature, drought, wet conditions, and precipitations have detrimental effects on maize yields in the two maize zones.Nonetheless, the magnitude of those effects appears to be low compared to other parts of the world. Adaptation seems to be key in the region where the largest impact is estimated. On the contrary, the lower impact found in the other region, the Yellow-Huai Valley summer maize zone, is low but likely to intensify.
KW - Weather shocks
KW - Adaptation
KW - Maize yield
KW - China
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Economics Working Paper Series
BT - Weather shocks, maize yields and adaptation in rural China
PB - Lancaster University, Department of Economics
CY - Lancaster
ER -