Agriculture and Trade Opportunities for Tanzania: Past Volatility and Future Climate Change

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 429-447

  Ahmed, Syud Amer ^a   Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^b   Hertel, Thomas W ^c   Martin, William J ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TRADE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; EXPORT; HETEROGENEITY; IMPORT; MAIZE;

TANZANIA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84864021739     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2012.00672.x     Document Type: Article

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