Cropland use, yields, and droughts: Spatial data modeling for Burkina Faso and Niger

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-33

  Mainardi, Stefano ^a  

^a CARDINAL STEFAN WYSZY SKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Droughts; Food crops; Sahel; Spatial panel data models

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; DIFFUSION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ELASTICITY; LEGUME; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; REGIONAL ECONOMY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

BURKINA FASO; NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 78650341294     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2010.00465.x     Document Type: Article

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