Farmers’ Perception of Climate Change: A Review of the Literature for Latin America
Alejandro López-Feldman, Profesor Investigador Titular de la División de Economía del CIDE, junto con Isael Fierros-González escribieron el artículo Farmers’ Perception of Climate Change: A Review of the Literature for Latin America en la revista Frontier in Environmental Sciences. Abstract Global climate is changing rapidly, and it is not clear if agricultural producers in developing countries will
- Published in Investigaciones
Changes in rural poverty in Perú 2004–2012
This paper written by Samuel Morley disaggregates the various sources of rural income growth in Peru between 2004 and 2012 and shows that about 80% of the increase came from rising earnings and only 15% from transfer programs. This increase in rural earnings was not led by agriculture. It was mainly because of a general rise
- Published in Revistas CIDE
Production risk and adoption of irrigation technology: evidence from small-scale farmers in Chile
In most developing countries non-irrigation status often dominates adoption of traditional and modern irrigation technology. In this paper, César Salazar and John Rand study the effect of production risk on irrigation technology choice among small-scale farmers in Chile, applying sample selection and discrete choice models. We find that more educated farmers, with credit access, receiving extension
- Published in Revistas CIDE