Climate Change, Risk and Grain Yields in China

Journal of Integrative Agriculture

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1279-1291

  Holst, Rainer ^a   Yu, Xiaohua ^a   Grün, Carola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Climate change; Grain yield; Yield risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879702570     PISSN: 20953119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(13)60435-9     Document Type: Article

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