Projecting future crop productivity for global economic modeling

Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-50

  Müller, Christoph ^a   Robertson, Richard D ^b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural productivity; Climate change; Crop modeling; Land use

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GROWTH RATE; LAND USE CHANGE;

EID: 84892889936     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/agec.12088     Document Type: Article

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