Climate variability and agricultural policy reform in Morocco

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dc.contributor.authorKaraky, R. H.en
dc.contributor.authorArndt, C.en
dc.contributor.authorTyner, W. E.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialMoroccoen
dc.coverage.temporal1960 - 2000en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:55:21Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:55:21Zen
dc.date.issued2004en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractTwo distinctive features seem to be driving the agricultural sector in Morocco. The first appears to be an increased frequency of drought, with six of ten years in the 1990s characterized as drought years. The second is the continued protective policy that the government maintains on strategic agricultural commodities, primarily cereals. We employ an enhanced general equilibrium model that examines the long run impacts of trade liberalization policy under alternative climate outcomes. Our results indicate that returns to factors of production are bid up under favorable climate and decline dramatically in the bad state of nature. This behavior is transmitted to households welfare. With complete wheat trade liberalization, we find that landowners are the primary losers irrespective of the state of nature realized. The urban sector gains. There is also evidence that livestock capital mitigates the negative impacts of liberalization in the event of drought, especially for small farmers.en
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dc.identifier929en
dc.identifier.citationClimate Variability and Agricultural Policy Reform in Morocco, submitted to Food Policy.en
dc.identifier.issn0306-9192en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65825en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherFood Policyen
dc.subjectEconomic policyen
dc.subjectInternational tradeen
dc.subjectMarketing and tradeen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectAgricultural policiesen
dc.subjectMoroccoen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleClimate variability and agricultural policy reform in Moroccoen
dc.typeAbstracten
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