Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture to 2030

Climate Change and Crop Production

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 38-49

  Lobell, David ^a   Burke, Marshall ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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