Climate change/variability and food systems: Evidence from the Afram Plains, Ghana

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 753-765

  Codjoe, Samuel Nii Ardey ^a   Owusu, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Climate variability; Food systems; Ghana; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 83555176453     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-011-0211-3     Document Type: Article

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