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Agricultural Impacts of the 2015/2016 Drought in Ethiopia Using High-Resolution Data Fusion Methodologies

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Integrating satellite data into GIS and traditional agricultural survey data remains relatively understudied, particularly in developing countries. This paper seeks to partially fill this gap by creating a 6 year, panel data that incorporates the relatively severe 2015/2016 Ethiopian drought. A variety of interesting results emerge, including the ability to better understand impacts on productivity from remote-sensed, GIS and farm management perspectives on maize productivity. In addition, the study explores potential impacts at initial stages in the crop cycle which better understand productivity and production changes earlier in the production season. The goal is to facilitate providing timelier and more accurate, information for potential policy action in the face of extreme weather events such as the recent Ethiopian drought.

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  1. International Food Policy Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    James M. Warner

  2. Department of Geography, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Michael L. Mann

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  1. FTZ-NK, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences , Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

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Warner, J.M., Mann, M.L. (2018). Agricultural Impacts of the 2015/2016 Drought in Ethiopia Using High-Resolution Data Fusion Methodologies. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Handbook of Climate Change Resilience. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71025-9_79-1

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