Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Agriculture
Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Agriculture
Ariel Dinar and Robert Mendelsohn, Editors
Edward Elgar Publishing
Expected publication January 2026
Motivation
The agricultural sector is among the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. The agricultural sector is also one of the most advanced sectors in preparing itself to climate change. This includes private adaptation at the farm level along public preparedness in the form of research and development, state support of farm-level and regional-level projects. Finally, the agricultural sector is responsible for a large share of GHG emissions. There is significant potential to reduce these emissions through mitigation in this sector. The 2011 Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture (https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/handbook-on-climate-change-and-agriculture-9781849801164.html) documented important agronomic and economic aspects of soil, water, atmosphere, and farmer abilities to balance them under climate change. In the past decade since, our capacity to understand and cope with climate change in agriculture as well as to apply research methods to quantify impacts and responses have grown.
The objective of the “Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Agriculture” is to present a collection of interrelated aspects associated with recent explorations in mitigation and the impact of and adaptation to climate change in agriculture from around the world.
The book benefited from financial support by the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.
Workshop Presentations: Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Agriculture
Co-edited by Ariel Dinar and Robert Mendelsohn
Introduction
1. Dinar Ariel and Robert Mendelsohn, Introduction to the Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Agriculture
PART 1 CLIMATE IMPACTS ON AGRICULTURE
2 Climate change and agriculture: A global meta-analysis of the Ricardian literature.
Allan Beltran, Saúl Basurto Hernández, Robert Mendelsohn, and Luis Miguel Galindo
3 European climate change impacts on agriculture: An updated Ricardian analysis.
Charlotte Fabri, and Steven Van Passel
4 Assessing the sensitivity of climate change impacts in agriculture to the climate-economy functional form.
Joey Blumberg
5 Estimating the impact of droughts and floods on African farmers.
Shun Chonabayashi and Theepakorn Jithitikulchai
6 Impacts of and seasonal adaptation to climate change: Structural Ricardian evidence from smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa
Babatunde Abidoye, Agha Ali Akram, Sudha Kannan, Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, and Kehinde Omotoso
7 The impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity in OECD countries.
Mehrshad Radmehr, and Richard Arhinful
PART 2 AGRICULTURAL ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Part 2A Crop Choice, Agroforestry, Risk Management
8 Agricultural adaptation to climate change: The imperative, the reaction and the policy challenges.
Lunyu C. Zhao, Xinran R. Wang, Chengcheng J. Fei, and Bruce A. McCarl
9 The economics of large-scale climate adaptation in Brazilian agriculture.
Guilherme DePaula, Aryeverton Fortes de Oliveira, Vania Rosa Pereira, Milena Oliveira, and Arthur Welle
10 Drought-tolerant crops as a drought adaptation tool: Productivity, input complementarity, and risk effects.
Jonathan McFadden, Sam Bailey, Daniel Bonin, Laura Paul, and J.G. Malacarne
12 Climate change impacts and adaptation in the agricultural sector of the Colorado River Basin: A hydro-economic analysis.
Daniel Crespo, Mehdi Nemati, Ariel Dinar, Zachary Frankel, and Nicholas Halberg
Part 2B Managing Water as an Adaptation
13 Effects of climate, land, and farm characteristics on irrigation adoption, water use, and conservation practices in the Southeastern US.
Harikrishnan Santhosh, and Jeffrey D. Mullen
14 Extreme soil moisture risk and subsurface drainage adoption: A structural Ricardian analysis
Steven Wallander, Daniel Szmurlo, and Benjamin M. Gramig
15 Effects of climate change on farmers' adaptive investment in irrigation facilities: Empirical evidence from national representative surveys in China.
Jinxia Wang, Wei Chao, Kaixing Huang, Huang Chen, and Yimeng Li
PART 3 AGRICULTURE AS A TOOL FOR GHG MITIGATION
16 Markets in agriculture-based carbon offsets: Current status and scaling challenges.
Rohit Jindal
17 How to address barriers to the adoption of agricultural carbon sequestration
Michael A. Meneses, Miguel I. Gómez, David R. Just, Ravi Kanbur, David R. Lee, and
C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell
18 The growing challenges of climate change in Spanish agriculture: Impacts, mitigation and adaptation.
José Albiac, and Encarna Esteban
19 Perception and willingness to support planned mitigation climate policies: The African farmers’ perspective.
Perez. L. Kemeni Kambiet, Ernest L. Molua, Victor Ongoma, Francis E. Ndip, and Hachim El Ayoubi
PART 4 GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS AND POLICIES
20 Could agricultural extension services help farmers adapt to climate change? Evidence from smallholder farmers in Kenya, Mozambique, and Nigeria.
Ali Akram, Esteban J. Quiñones, Abbie Turianksy, and Robert Mendelsohn
21 Legislative responsiveness to climate change: Politically-driven adaptation in California’s agricultural sector.
Paige Pellaton, Jonathan P. Colner, Alex Cohen, Cory Struthers, Siddharth Kishore, Scott A. MacKenzie, Matthew S. Shugart, Mehdi Nemati, and Ariel Dinar
22 Governance structure, adaptation options, and climate resilience of the agricultural and water sectors of Morocco: Pathway analysis in the context of Oum Er Rbia Basin.
Rathinasamy Maria Saleth, Abdelkader Ait El Mekki, Upali Amarasinghe,
Giriraj Amarnath, and Youssef Brouziyne
CONCLUSION
23 Conclusions of the Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Agriculture, and Lessons Learned
Robert Mendelsohn, and Ariel Dinar