Assessing the impact of sand and dust storm on agriculture: Empirical evidence from Mongolia.

ABSTRACT: Assessing the economic impact of sand and dust storms provides critical insights to policy development and reforms; a subject that is gaining more attention as risk management becomes the dominant approach for hazard mitigation policies. To assess the causal impact of sand and dust storms on agriculture, specifically on crop and livestock revenue and physical production, random year-to-year variations in dust exposure were analyzed using a fixed effect regression. To complete this analysis, weather and climate data from the on-ground meteorological stations was combined with the household level socioeconomic surveys conducted by Mongolia's National Statistics Office (NSO) over a decade. The descriptive statistics of the meteorological data collected over the eight years period show that, o

SUBMITTER: Ahmadzai H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9901775 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature