Is Cassava the Answer to African Climate Change Adaptation?

Tropical Plant Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-29

  Jarvis, Andy ^a,b   Ramirez Villegas, Julian ^a,b,c   Campo, Beatriz Vanessa Herrera ^a   Navarro Racines, Carlos ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^b Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Breeding; Cassava; Climate change; EcoCrop; Pests and diseases

Indexed keywords

ALEYRODIDAE; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84859571042     PISSN: 19359756     EISSN: 19359764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12042-012-9096-7     Document Type: Article

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