Climate variability and crop production in Tanzania

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 449-460

  Rowhani, Pedram ^a   Lobell, David B ^b   Linderman, Marc ^c   Ramankutty, Navin ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Food security; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FOOD SECURITY; MAIZE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RICE; SORGHUM;

TANZANIA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79551549284     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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