Will African agriculture survive climate change?

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 367-388

  Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep ^a   Mendelsohn, Robert ^a   Hassan, Rashid ^b   Benhin, James ^c   Deressa, Temesgen ^d   Diop, Mbaye ^e   Eid, Helmy Mohamed ^f   Fosu, K Yerfi ^g   Gbetibouo, Glwadys ^d   Jain, Suman ^h   Mahamadou, Ali ⁱ   Mano, Renneth ^j   Kabubo Mariara, Jane ^k   El Marsafawy, Samia ^f   Molua, Ernest ^l   Ouda, Samiha ^f   Ouedraogo, Mathieu ^m   Séne, Isidor ⁿ   Maddison, David ^o   Seo, S Niggol ^a   Dinar, Ariel ^p   more..

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c CEEPA ^*  (South Africa)

^d Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia   (Ethiopia)

^e Institut Senegalais de Recherches AgrEcoles Dakar   (Senegal)

^f Agriculture Research Center   (Egypt)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^m INSTITUT DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET DE RECHERCHES AGRICOLES   (Burkina Faso)

ⁿ CRODT ISRA Centre de recherche océanographique de Dakar Thiaroye Institut sénégalais de recherche agricole   (Senegal)

^o UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^p WORLD BANK   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GLOBAL WARMING; IRRIGATION;

AFRICA;

EID: 33749602053     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhl004     Document Type: Article

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