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Climate change and Agriculture: What is the Role of Wildlife in adaptation in South Africa?

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  • Edwin Muchapondwa
  • Jackson Otieno

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Climate change poses a serious problem to agriculture sector especially livestock farming in South Africa. There is evidence based on climate models’ predictions that a +2.50 C to + 50 C temperature increase over the current level is likely to wipe out cattle or beef farms and shrink drastically sheep farms in the Southern Africa […]

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  • Edwin Muchapondwa & Jackson Otieno, 2016. "Climate change and Agriculture: What is the Role of Wildlife in adaptation in South Africa?," Working Papers 70, Economic Research Southern Africa.
    • Handle: RePEc:rza:wpaper:70
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    Cited by:

    1. Rangan Gupta & Emmanuel Ziramba, 2008. "Costly Tax Enforcement and Financial Repression," Economic Notes, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA, vol. 37(2), pages 141-154, July.
    2. Rangan Gupta & Cobus Vermeulen, 2010. "Private and Public Health Expenditures in an Endogenous Growth Model with Inflation Targeting," Annals of Economics and Finance, Society for AEF, vol. 11(1), pages 139-153, May.

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    Keywords

    agriculture; Biodiversity conservation; climate change;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q1 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics

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