The impact of future climate change on West African crop yields: What does the recent literature say?

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1073-1083

  Roudier, Philippe ^a   Sultan, Benjamin ^b   Quirion, Philippe ^a   Berg, Alexis ^a  

^a Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Crop model; Forecast; West Africa; Yield

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; META-ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RICHARDS EQUATION; VULNERABILITY; YIELD RESPONSE;

WEST AFRICA;

GLYCINE MAX; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79960068870     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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