Adaptation to climate change in mixed crop-livestock farming systems in developing countries

Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 402-419

  Thornton, Philip K ^a   Herrero, Mario ^b   Jones, Peter G ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MIXED CROPS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84881839830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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