Empirical approaches for assessing impacts of climate change on agriculture: The EcoCrop model and a case study with grain sorghum

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 170, Issue , 2013, Pages 67-78

  Ramirez Villegas, Julian ^a,b,c   Jarvis, Andy ^a,c   Läderach, Peter ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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

^d International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climatic suitability; EcoCrop; Impacts; Modeling; Sorghum

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MITIGATION; SORGHUM;

SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM BICOLOR BICOLOR;

EID: 84872918107     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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