IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rajsxx/v5y2013i1p85-94.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Agriculture and Climate Change in Cameroon: An Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation Options

Author

Listed:
  • Yong D. Ngondjeb

Abstract

This study aims to assess the economic impact of climate change on crop farming activities in the Sudano-Sahelian Area of Cameroon. The study uses the Ricardian model and is based on farm data generated from a survey carried out in the framework of the ESA (Water-Soil-Tree) project between 2008 and 2009 on producers in 10 villages of the Lake Lagdo watershed. The results from this analysis indicate that an annual increase in temperature will have a negative impact on irrigated and dry land farms in the area. However, the marginal impact of increasing precipitation will increase crop revenue for dry land farms. The findings generally provide an idea about increasing temperature and decreasing precipitation that are detrimental to agricultural productivity. The above analyses show the magnitude and direction of the economic impact of climate change on agriculture. These findings also suggest that Cameroon should begin to plan for climate contingencies.

Suggested Citation

  • Yong D. Ngondjeb, 2013. "Agriculture and Climate Change in Cameroon: An Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation Options," African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(1), pages 85-94.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rajsxx:v:5:y:2013:i:1:p:85-94
    DOI: 10.1080/20421338.2013.782151
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/20421338.2013.782151
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/20421338.2013.782151?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rajsxx:v:5:y:2013:i:1:p:85-94. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rajs .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.