Climate: Food security under climate change

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5863, 2008, Pages 580-581

  Brown, Molly E ^a   Funk, Christopher C ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMODITY PRICE; CROP YIELD; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOOD SECURITY; MALNUTRITION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; ASIA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SECURITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FOOD SUPPLY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POVERTY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 38849151100     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154102     Document Type: Short Survey

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