PO319 Study Guide - Final Guide: Clientelism, Jubaland
Document Summary
Ricardian method of african farming: modeling agricultural performance using corss sectional evidence, and uss the methid to stuy animal husbandry, makes claim that owners of commercial livestock are effected much harsher by these climate changes while small farmers are able to adapt, analysis reveals that net farm revenue has a quadratic relationship with both temperature and precipitation, farmers go from making 250 to 5000 $ expectedif switched to irragation, suggests that farmers in africas sahelian region have always face climate. Intense population pressure has led to smaller land hodongs, poorer diet quality, and declining food security: uses household survey data to demonstrate that there is a difference between the trends for the wealthier households with acces to non farm income that are able to invest in the inputs needed for increasing agricultural productivity, increased labour will only help you so far in agriculture, rising living standards have been experienced largely by those families who have access to non farm income.
