A spatially explicit assessment of current and future hotspots of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of global change

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 64, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 222-235

  Liu, Junguo ^a   Fritz, Steffen ^b   van Wesenbeeck, C F A ^c   Fuchs, Michael ^d   You, Liangzhi ^e   Obersteiner, Michael ^b   Yang, Hong ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^e INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; crop production; GEPIC; MDGs; undernutrition

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CHANGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

MANIHOT ESCULENTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 57049114864     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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