Coping with insularity: The need for crop genetic improvement to strengthen adaptation to climatic change and food security in the Pacific

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1405-1423

  Lebot, Vincent ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Breeding programmes; Genetic vulnerability; Root and tuber crops; Vegeculture

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPPING PRACTICE; FOOD SECURITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PLANT BREEDING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84887153760     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-013-9445-1     Document Type: Review

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