Agriculture, livelihoods and climate change in the West African Sahel

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 119-125

  Sissoko, Keffing ^a   van Keulen, Herman ^b   Verhagen, Jan ^b   Tekken, Vera ^c   Battaglini, Antonella ^c  

^a Comité permanent Interétats de Lutte contre la Sechéresse au Sahel ^*  (Burkina Faso)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Food security; Livelihoods; Sahel

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79952107185     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0164-y     Document Type: Article

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