Identifying potential synergies and trade-offs for meeting food security and climate change objectives in sub-Saharan Africa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 46, 2010, Pages 19661-19666

  Palm, Cheryl A ^a   Smukler, Sean M ^a   Sullivan, Clare C ^a   Mutuo, Patrick K ^a   Nyadzi, Gerson I ^a,b   Walsh, Markus G ^a,c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME   (United States)

^c International Center for Tropical Agriculture   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Land use cover change; Nitrous oxide emissions

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FERTILIZER; GREEN MANURE; NITROGEN;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; AGROFORESTRY; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SAFETY; LAND USE; LEGUME; POLICY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFORESTRATION;

EID: 78650532580     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912248107     Document Type: Article

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