
Attend the AEDE Economic Outlook and Policy Webinar Series featuring Dr. Robert Mendelsohn who will discuss The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture.
Dr. Mendelsohn is the Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forest Policy and Professor of Economics at Yale University.
Abstract: It is reasonable to be concerned that climate change will cause widespread famine across the world and weather will continue to take its toll on farmers. But the empirical evidence suggests that climate change is more likely to be primarily a regional concern for farmers in the tropics on marginal lands. The global supply of food will not be at risk over the next century but there may well be some farmers who are made worse off.