Food security and climate change in drought-sensitive savanna zones of Ghana

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 291-306

  Armah, Frederick A ^a   Odoi, Justice O ^b   Yengoh, Genesis T ^c   Obiri, Samuel ^d   Yawson, David O ^a   Afrifa, Ernest K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

^b Ghana Nature Today ^*  (Ghana)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d CSIR WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Agro ecological zones; Climate change; Desertification; Food security; Modelling; Savanna

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; DESERTIFICATION; DROUGHT; FOOD SECURITY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LAND USE CHANGE; MARKOV CHAIN; MILLET; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAVANNA; SORGHUM; SOYBEAN;

GHANA; GUINEA; SUDAN;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 79751535659     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-010-9263-9     Document Type: Article

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