## Importing Inputs for Climate Change Mitigation: The Case of Agricultural Productivity

_IMF Working Papers, February 4, 2019_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Alexis Meyer-Cirkel, Akira Sasahara, Hans Weisfeld
- Published: February 4, 2019
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484393826.001

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### Authors and publication
- By Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Alexis Meyer-Cirkel, Akira Sasahara, Hans Weisfeld
- February 4, 2019
- IMF Working Papers, Working Paper No. 2019/026
- Pages: 50
- Volume: 2019
- Issue: 026
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484393826.001
- ISBN: 9781484393826
- ISSN: 1018-5941
- Stock No: WPIEA2019026

### Research scope and data
- Estimates agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) in 162 countries between 1991 and 2015.
- Aims to understand sources of cross-country variations in agricultural TFP levels and TFP growth rates.

### Key findings
- Imported intermediate inputs raise agricultural TFP.
- Higher temperatures and rainfall shortages impede TFP growth, particularly in low-income countries (LICs).
- Within LICs, those with a higher import component of intermediate inputs seem to be more shielded from the negative impacts of weather shocks.

### Themes and variables analyzed
- Agricultural total factor productivity (TFP): level and growth rate.
- Imported intermediate inputs.
- Climate variables: temperature and rainfall shortages (weather shocks).
- Cross-country variation, with specific attention to low-income countries (LICs).

### Subject classifications and keywords
- Subject: Agricultural production, Agricultural sector, Economic sectors, Labor, National accounts, Personal income, Production, Total factor productivity
- Keywords: Agricultural production, Agricultural Productivity, Agricultural sector, agricultural TFP, Climate Change Mitigation, dummy variable, Global, growth rate, Imported Inputs, LICs, Personal income, productivity measure TFP, rainfalls increase TFP, simple average, TFP, TFP growth rate, TFP level, Total factor productivity, Weather Shocks, WP

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*Source: IMF Working Paper "Importing Inputs for Climate Change Mitigation: The Case of Agricultural Productivity", February 4, 2019.*

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