Journal
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
Volume 152, Issue -, Pages 27-39Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.05.013
Keywords
Extreme Events; Agricultural Production; Environmental Sustainability; Production Practices
Funding
- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Coordenadoria de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior, Capes)
- Programa de Apoio a Pos-Graduacao e a Pesquisa Cientifica e Tecnologica em Desenvolvimento Socioeconomico no Brasil (PGPSE) [88887.123941/2016-00]
- Project Abordagem simultanea e inter-relacionada das dimensoes de sustentabilidade para a melhoria da gestao de recursos hidricos: o caso da bacia do Rio Jundial
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Climate change is expected to cause several impacts on agriculture. Nonetheless, adaptive strategies and environmental sustainability may affect the ability to cope with these impacts. We analyze how agricultural technologies and the ecosystem diversity represented by the land cover have attenuated the impacts of extreme climate events on agricultural production in the Sao Paulo state, Brazil. Analyses are based on a panel with information for 568 municipalities between 1990 and 2014. We first use multivariate statistical analysis to define six groups of localities according to their levels of agricultural development and land cover. Secondly, based on fixed effect estimates, we analyze the relationship between the dynamics of extreme climate events and agricultural production in each group of localities. Results highlight that both technological and environmental factors could contribute to increases in agricultural production. More importantly, agriculture practiced with high levels of environmental preservation tends to be more resilient to extreme temperature and precipitation events.
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