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More Crop for Every Drop: Climate Change and Indian Agriculture

Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Center for Global Development


Presenter

Siddharth Hari, Virginia Tech University

Host

Justin Sandefur, Center for Global Development

Indian agriculture remains vulnerable to the vagaries of weather, and the looming threat of climate change may expose this vulnerability further. Using district-level data on temperature, rainfall and crop production, Siddharth Hari’s paper first documents a long-term trend of rising temperatures, declining average precipitation and increase in extreme precipitation events. One key finding is that the impact of temperature and rainfall are felt only in the extreme: when temperatures are much higher, rainfall is significantly lower, and the number of “dry days” greater is than normal. He also finds that these impacts are significantly more adverse in unirrigated areas (and hence rainfed crops) compared to irrigated areas. Can policy makers react to the challenges of climate change and find ways to get “more crop for every drop?"

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Food, Agriculture, and Biofuels, India

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