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How Do Western European Farms Behave And Respond To Climate Change? A Simultaneous Irrigation-Crop Decision Model

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  • JANKA VANSCHOENWINKEL

    (VITO NV, Boeretang 200 Mol, Belgium2Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D Diepenbeek, Belgium)

  • MARK VANCAUTEREN

    (Department of Economics, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D Diepenbeek, Belgium4Statistics Netherlands Heerlen, The Netherlands)

  • STEVEN VAN PASSEL

    (Department of Engineering Management, University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium6VCCM, Flanders Make, Belgium7Nanolab Centre of Excellence, Prinsstraat 13, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium)

Abstract

Most farm adaptations are reactive actions that run the risk of locking farm systems into suboptimal long-term trajectories. This is especially the case with regard to water management as water scarcity will be aggravated by climate change. This paper looks into farm irrigation choices in combination with crop choices because a proper crop choice has the potential to reduce water requirements. It proposes an extended Ricardian model to capture multiple adaptation decisions explicitly. The new simultaneous irrigation-crop farm decision model uses spatially detailed farm-level data of over 18,000 European farms on irrigation and seven different crop choices. The analysis shows that larger farmers and farmers in less water-scarce regions that use irrigation are more sensitive to temperature increases than rain-fed agriculture. This might be explained by the fact that these farmers do not experience the real cost of water scarcity because of which they take less efficient decisions.

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  • Janka Vanschoenwinkel & Mark Vancauteren & Steven Van Passel, 2022. "How Do Western European Farms Behave And Respond To Climate Change? A Simultaneous Irrigation-Crop Decision Model," Climate Change Economics (CCE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 13(04), pages 1-38, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ccexxx:v:13:y:2022:i:04:n:s2010007822500099
    DOI: 10.1142/S2010007822500099
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