Effects of the 2008 flood on economic performance and food security in Yemen
A Simulation Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3898274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clemens Breisinger (0000-0001-6955-0682, Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute Washington DC United States), Olivier Ecker (0000-0001-7549-2511, Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute Washington DC United States), Rainer Thiele (0000-0002-8904-6851, Senior Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy Kiel Germany), Manfred Wiebelt (0000-0001-7698-3056, Senior Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy Kiel Germany) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 304-326 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/disa.12147 |
| PMID | 26282701 |
| OpenAlex | W2114654979 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
Extreme weather events such as floods and droughts can have devastating consequences for individual well being and economic development, in particular in poor societies with limited availability of coping mechanisms. Combining a dynamic computable general equilibrium model of the Yemeni economy with a household-level calorie consumption simulation model, this paper assesses the economy-wide, agricultural and food security effects of the 2008 tropical storm and flash flood that hit the Hadramout and Al-Mahrah governorates. The estimation results suggest that agricultural value added, farm household incomes and rural food security deteriorated long term in the flood-affected areas. Due to economic spillover effects, significant income losses and increases in food insecurity also occurred in areas that were unaffected by flooding. This finding suggests that while most relief efforts are typically concentrated in directly affected areas, future efforts should also consider surrounding areas and indirectly affected people
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Computable general equilibrium · Economics · Flash flood · Flood myth · Food security · Geography · Natural resource economics · Spillover effect · Agricultural risk and resilience · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Transboundary Water Resource Management
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |