Effects of ecological and conventional agricultural intensification practices on maize yields in sub-Saharan Africa under potential climate change

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Folberth, Christian ^a,b   Yang, Hong ^a,c   Gaiser, Thomas ^d   Liu, Junguo ^b,e   Wang, Xiuying ^f   Williams, Jimmy ^f   Schulin, Rainer ^g  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f BLACKLAND RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER   (United States)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

environmental change; soil health; sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CROPS; CULTIVATION; EROSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MINERALS; ROTATION; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; SOIL HEALTH; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; WATER HOLDING CAPACITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CATCH CROP; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GIS; HERB; HUMIDITY; INFILTRATION; MAIZE; MINERAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL EROSION; THRESHOLD;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

SESBANIA; SESBANIA SESBAN; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84899542133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/4/044004     Document Type: Article

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