6 results match your criteria: "Garaad Institute for Social Research and Development Studies[Affiliation]"

Climate change has become an issue of concern for sustainable agriculture production. East African nations are heavily reliant on the agriculture sector, which accounts for a substantial amount of their gross domestic product (GDP) and employment. Due to climatic fluctuations, the output of the sector became very unpredictable.

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Climate change is an imminent threat to both developing and developed countries. Various determinants of climate change have been discovered in the literature including, inter alia, the agriculture sector. To this end, this study models the role of agricultural crops - maize, sesame, sorghum, and wheat productions - and livestock production in environmental degradation in Somalia for the period of 1985 to 2017.

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Examining the effects of climate change and political instability on maize production in Somalia.

Environ Sci Pollut Res Int

January 2023

Institute of Mathematical Science, Faculty of Science, University Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Agricultural production is sensitive to climate variability, so climate change-agriculture sector nexus is topical in developing countries. To this end, this study examines the impact of climate change variables-rainfall and temperature-and non-climatic factors on maize production in Somalia for the period between 1980 and 2018 using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound test, dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS), variance decomposition(VD), and impulse response function (IRF). The empirical results of the ARDL bound test confirmed the presence of long-run cointegration between the dependent variable and the explanatory variables.

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Article Synopsis
  • * Findings indicate that rainfall positively affects livestock production in the long run, while higher temperatures negatively impact it in the short run, and carbon dioxide emissions show mixed effects.
  • * The study also reveals complex causal relationships between climate factors and livestock production, recommending adaptation and mitigation strategies to address climate change challenges.
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While there are enormous studies on climate change in stable countries, climate policy perspectives from conflict-prone regions including Somalia are limited. It is noteworthy that environmental degradation is an alarming issue that fuels the vulnerability of Somalia to climate change. To this end, this study investigates the asymmetric impact of energy and economic growth on environmental degradation in Somalia-by employing nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model (NARDL) and causal techniques from 1985 to 2017.

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The purpose of this research examination is to ascertain the effect of climate change, measured rainfall, temperature, and CO, on crop production by using data spanning from 1985 to 2016 in Somalia. ARDL bounds testing approach and Granger causality were employed to model the long-run and short-run cointegrations and the causality directions respectively of the scrutinized variables. The empirical results of the study found a long cointegration between the variables.

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