Regional Impacts of Climate Change: Africa

Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 66-77

  Bhattacharjee, Ranjana ^a   Ntare, Bonny R ^b   Otoo, Emmanuel ^c   Yanda, Pius Z ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^b Semi Arid Tropics   (Mali)

^c CSIR CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coping strategies; General Circulation Models (GCMs); Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Regional Climate Models (RCM); Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872326610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470960929.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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