Farm management decision and response to climate variability and change in Côte d'Ivoire

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 123-142

  Comoé, Hermann ^a   Finger, Robert ^b   Barjolle, Dominique ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation strategies; Agriculture; Climate change; C te d'Ivoire; Perception; Smallholder farmers

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FARM; FARMING SYSTEM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PERCEPTION; RAINFALL; SMALLHOLDER;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84892529344     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-012-9436-9     Document Type: Review

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