Climate information for food security: Responding to User's climate information needs

Climate Prediction and Agriculture: Advances and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 225-248

  Waiswa, M ^a   Mulamba, P ^b   Isabirye, P ^a  

^a Department of Meteorology ^*  (Uganda)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

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EID: 84895409106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-44650-7_22     Document Type: Chapter

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