Climate volatility and poverty vulnerability in Tanzania

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-55

  Ahmed, Syud Amer ^a   Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^b,c   Hertel, Thomas W ^d,e   Lobell, David B ^b   Ramankutty, Navin ^f   Rios, Ana R ^g   Rowhani, Pedram ^f  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; GCM; Poverty; Tanzania; Volatility; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FOOD SUPPLY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POVERTY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VULNERABILITY;

TANZANIA;

EID: 78751701476     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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