Global assessment of urban and peri-urban agriculture: Irrigated and rainfed croplands

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Thebo, A L ^a   Drechsel, P ^b   Lambin, E F ^c,d  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Food security; Irrigated croplands; Rainfed croplands; Spatial analysis; Urban and peri urban agriculture; Urban croplands; Urban land use

Indexed keywords

FOOD SECURITY; IRRIGATED CROPLAND; RAINFED; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AND PERI-URBAN AGRICULTURES; URBAN CROPLANDS; URBAN LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; FOOD SECURITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; PERIURBAN AREA; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84908592502     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/11/114002     Document Type: Article

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