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The impact of climate change on Africa is likely to be severe because of adverse direct effects, high agricultural dependence, and limited capacity to adapt. Direct effects vary widely across the continent, with some areas (e.g. eastern Africa) predicted to get wetter, but much of southern Africa getting drier and hotter. Crop yields will be adversely affected and the frequency of extreme weather events will increase. Adaptation to climate change is primarily a private-sector response and sho...
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- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
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- Oxford Review of Economic Policy Journal website
- Volume:
- 24
- Issue:
- 2
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
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- 2008
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- © Collier et al. 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Geography following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version (Paul Collier, Gordon Conway and Tony Venables, (2008). Climate Change and Africa. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 24 (2), 337 - 353) is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grn019
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Climate Change and Africa.
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