Climate Risk And Farming Systems In Rural Cameroon
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Keywords
Climate risk; agricultural diversification; portfolio theory; Sub Saharan Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2009-07-28 (Africa)
- NEP-AGR-2009-07-28 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2009-07-28 (Environmental Economics)
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