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🔗 Want the full details? Check out the paper here ⬇️
doi.org/10.1111/ajae... 10/10

⚠️ Policy takeaway: While fertilizer subsidies are essential, high temperatures can undermine their effectiveness, shifting input priorities. Future policies should support broader adaptation strategies, including pest management. 9/10

🧑‍🌾 The findings indicate that both current and prior heat events influence how farmers allocate resources and adapt. This points to a need for policy approaches that support these adjustments. 8/10

For individual crops, heat impacts vary. Millet production, for example, declines under heat, while cowpea seems more resilient. Such varied responses suggest room for climate-focused crop choices. 7/10

A major adaptation response: mixed cropping. 🌾High temps lead farmers to diversify crops, adding resilience to their systems, though it might reduce potential yields. 6/10

🌱 Extreme heat shifts farmers' input use. Facing high temps, farmers move from yield-enhancing inputs, like fertilizers, to protective measures, like pesticides. They also rely more on hired labor after high-temp seasons.
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🔍 Key finding: high temps reduce crop yields but don’t lower the overall value of agricultural output. Why? Farmers adapt by expanding the cultivated area, compensating for yield losses. 4/10

📊 Here’s a figure showing the mean temperatures during the growing season in Nigeria from 1983 to 2015 and present an upward trend from 1990 onwards. 3/10

Using data from the Nigeria LSMS-ISA (2010-2015), we investigate how current and past heat exposure impacts TFP, crop yields, cultivated areas, and input use. We combine farm data with high-res satellite temperature records. 2/10