About 21% of the African population directly depends on rangeland resources. As this number is predicted to grow, it important understand response rangelands global environmental change and formulate, in turn, better hypotheses their capacity support livelihoods. Here we used three decades satellite data a dynamic vegetation model study recent climate describe changes structure accompanying gre...

In this paper, a new form of weather derivative contract, namely the climatic zone-based growth degree-day (GDD) contract, is introduced. The objective is to increase the risk management efficiency in the agricultural sector of China and to reduce the model dimension of multi-regional temperature-based weather derivatives pricing. Since the proposed contract serves as a risk management tool for...