Climate change risks for African agriculture

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

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4313-4315

  Müller, Christoph ^a   Cramer, Wolfgang ^a   Hare, William L ^a,b   Lotze Campen, Hermann ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Climate Analytics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPPING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 79952731375     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015078108     Document Type: Article

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