• geocomputation
• agricultural economics
• climate change

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of weather on agriculture in Italian Provinces from 2007 to 2018. Four different types of cultivation are considered: maize, soft wheat, durum wheat and wine grape. The variable of interest is year to year growth rate of yields for each cultivation. Weather is represented by short-term variation of temperature and precipitation in deviation from long trends during growing season, for crops, and winter, spring and summer, for wine grape. Individual and time fixed effect panel analysis shows negative impact of weather variation in almost all model specifications, with some exceptions; wheat proves to be the most resilient of the types of cultivation analysed whereas maize and wine grape show
quadratic impact of temperature and precipitation on yields growth rate.