Global market integration increases likelihood that a future African Green Revolution could increase crop land use and CO2emissions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 13799-13804

  Hertel, Thomas W ^a   Ramankutty, Navin ^b,c   Baldos, Uris Lantz C ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Greenhouse gases; Land use change; Technological change

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AFRICA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROP; ECONOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MARKETING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; HUMANS; MARKETING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, ECONOMIC;

EID: 84907222848     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403543111     Document Type: Article

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