Postharvest agriculture in changing climates: Its importance to African smallholder farmers

Food Security

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 361-392

  Stathers, Tanya ^a   Lamboll, Richard ^a   Mvumi, Brighton M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Climate change effects; East and southern Africa; Food security; Postharvest agriculture; Smallholder farmers

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGROMETEOROLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; DEVELOPING WORLD; EXTREME EVENT; FOOD SECURITY; HARVESTING; MAIZE; RAINFALL; SMALLHOLDER;

AFRICA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84883844642     PISSN: 18764517     EISSN: 18764525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-013-0262-z     Document Type: Article

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