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Salvatore Di Falco

Salvatore Di Falco

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
36
Citations
8287
World Ranking
2756
National Ranking
44

Overview

Salvatore Di Falco is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Social Sciences. Their work intersects various subfields including Soil Science, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Safety Research.

Their research addresses topics such as Agricultural risk and resilience, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Land Rights and Reforms, Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, Migration and Labor Dynamics, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, and the Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets.

Among their recent publications are:

  • The Impact of Climate Change and Adaptation on Food Production in Low-Income Countries: Evidence from the Nile Basin, Ethiopia (2023) in RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
  • Agricultural diversification, productivity, and food security across time and space (2022) in Agricultural Economics
  • Environmental Adaptation of Risk Preferences (2022) in The Economic Journal
  • Rural Populations, Land Degradation, and Living Standards in Developing Countries (2021) in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
  • Low-Quality Seeds, Labor Supply, and Economic Returns: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania (2023) in The Review of Economics and Statistics

Frequent coauthors of Salvatore Di Falco include:

  • Anna Kis (3 publications)
  • Martina Viarengo (3 publications)
  • Erwin Bulte (2 publications)
  • Menale Kassie (2 publications)
  • Xavier Vollenweider (2 publications)

Their work appears often in venues such as AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, SSRN Electronic Journal, Environment and Development Economics, Review of Behavioral Economics, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Best Publications

  • Does Adaptation to Climate Change Provide Food Security? A Micro-Perspective from Ethiopia

    Salvatore Di Falco;Marcella Veronesi;Mahmud Yesuf

  • Household characteristics and forest dependency: evidence from common property forest management in Nepal

    Bhim Adhikari;Salvatore Di Falco;Jon C. Lovett

  • On Crop Biodiversity, Risk Exposure, and Food Security in the Highlands of Ethiopia

    Salvatore Di Falco;Jean-Paul Chavas

  • How Can African Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change?: A Counterfactual Analysis from Ethiopia

    Salvatore Di Falco;Marcella Veronesi

  • Crop Insurance as a Strategy for Adapting to Climate Change

    Salvatore Di Falco;Felice Adinolfi;Martina Bozzola;Fabian Capitanio

  • Crop biodiversity, risk management and the implications of agricultural assistance

    Salvatore Di Falco;Salvatore Di Falco;Charles Perrings

  • Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Low-Income Countries: Household Level Evidence from the Nile Basin, Ethiopia

    Salvatore Di Falco;Mahmud Yesuf;Gunnar Kohlin;Claudia Ringler

  • Agrobiodiversity, farm profits and land fragmentation: Evidence from Bulgaria

    Salvatore Di Falco;Ivan Penov;Aleksi Aleksiev;Tom M. van Rensburg

  • Social capital, risk preference and adoption of improved farm land management practices in Ethiopia

    Tesfamicheal Wossen;Tesfamicheal Wossen;Thomas Berger;Salvatore Di Falco

  • Traffic lights and food choice: a choice experiment examining the relationship between nutritional food labels and price

    Kelvin Balcombe;Iain M Fraser;Salvatore Di Falco

  • Crop genetic diversity, farm productivity and the management of environmental risk in rainfed agriculture

    Salvatore Di Falco;Jean-Paul Chavas

  • Rainfall Shocks, Resilience, and the Effects of Crop Biodiversity on Agroecosystem Productivity

    Salvatore Di Falco;Jean-Paul Chavas

  • Seeds for livelihood: Crop biodiversity and food production in Ethiopia

    Salvatore Di Falco;Mintewab Bezabih;Mahmud Yesuf

  • The impact of kinship networks on the adoption of risk-mitigating strategies in Ethiopia

    Salvatore Di Falco;Erwin Bulte

  • Crop genetic diversity, productivity and stability of agroecosystems : a theoretical and empirical investigation

    Salvatore Di Falco;Charles Perrings

  • Dynamics of indirect land-use change: Empirical evidence from Brazil

    Saraly Andrade de Sá;Charles Palmer;Salvatore di Falco

  • Managing Environmental Risk in Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

    Salvatore Di Falco;Salvatore Di Falco;Marcella Veronesi;Marcella Veronesi

  • Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan agriculture: assessing the evidence and rethinking the drivers

    Salvatore Di Falco

  • Farmer management of production risk on degraded lands: the role of wheat variety diversity in the Tigray region, Ethiopia

    Salvatore Di Falco;Jean Paul Chavas;Melinda Smale

  • Analysing the Agricultural Costs and Non-market Benefits of Implementing the Water Framework Directive

    Ian J. Bateman;Roy Brouwer;Helen Davies;Brett H. Day

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Paul Chavas
Jean-Paul Chavas University of Wisconsin–Madison
Melinda Smale
Melinda Smale Michigan State University
Gunnar Köhlin
Gunnar Köhlin University of Gothenburg
Marie Claire Villeval
Marie Claire Villeval Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Iain Fraser
Iain Fraser University of Kent
Charles Perrings
Charles Perrings Arizona State University
Erwin H. Bulte
Erwin H. Bulte Wageningen University & Research
Robert Lensink
Robert Lensink University of Groningen
Kelvin Balcombe
Kelvin Balcombe University of Reading
Claudia Ringler
Claudia Ringler International Food Policy Research Institute

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