气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Environmental stress and agricultural landownership in Africa

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102237
	Environmental stress and agricultural landownership in Africa
	Linke A.M.; Tollefsen A.F.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	9593780
卷号	67
英文摘要	We examine how weather variability affects agricultural landownership rates in Africa, where at least half of the population depends on agriculture to earn a livelihood. In the absence of effective adaptation strategies, households that experience difficulties farming due to environmental stress might leave their land. With implications for demography – through migration – and political instability – when affected populations express grievances – changing landownership patterns could make existing development challenges on the continent even more difficult. We test our hypothesis that drier than average growing seasons will reduce landownership rates using Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Our DHS dataset includes interviews with 850,961 households in 35 African countries between 2005 and 2017. Compared to regions experiencing weather near the historical average, those with five consecutive dry growing seasons before the DHS experienced a 6.93% decline in the landownership rate. For every additional dry growing season during the five years before each survey, the landownership rate fell by 1.38%. A host of robustness checks support our general conclusion that drying conditions are associated with lower landownership rates. © 2021 The Authors
关键词	Africa Climate change Development Landownership Weather variability
英文关键词	agricultural land; demography; dry season; ecosystem health; environmental stress; historical perspective; livelihood; political instability; questionnaire survey; Africa
语种	英语
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205516
作者单位	Department of Geography, University of Utah, United States; Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Linke A.M.,Tollefsen A.F.. Environmental stress and agricultural landownership in Africa[J],2021,67.
APA	Linke A.M.,&Tollefsen A.F..(2021).Environmental stress and agricultural landownership in Africa.Global Environmental Change,67.
MLA	Linke A.M.,et al."Environmental stress and agricultural landownership in Africa".Global Environmental Change 67(2021).