Modeling agricultural production risk and the adaptation to climate change

Agricultural Finance Review

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-41

  Finger, Robert ^a   Schmid, Stéphanie ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biophysical modeling; Climate change; Crop production functions; Crop yields; Robust estimation; Yield variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952770620     PISSN: 00021466     EISSN: 20416326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00214660880001217     Document Type: Article

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