Climate-smart agriculture for food security

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1068-1072

  Lipper, Leslie ^a   Thornton, Philip ^b,c   Campbell, Bruce M ^c,d   Baedeker, Tobias ^e   Braimoh, Ademola ^e   Bwalya, Martin ^f   Caron, Patrick ^g   Cattaneo, Andrea ^a   Garrity, Dennis ^h   Henry, Kevin ⁱ   Hottle, Ryan ^j   Jackson, Louise ^k   Jarvis, Andrew ^c,d   Kossam, Fred ^l   Mann, Wendy ^a   McCarthy, Nancy ^m   Meybeck, Alexandre ^a   Neufeldt, Henry ^h   Remington, Tom ⁿ   Sen, Pham Thi ^o   Sessa, Reuben ^a   Shula, Reynolds ^p   Tibu, Austin ^l   Torquebiau, Emmanuel F ^g   more..

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^e WORLD BANK   (United States)

^f New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) International Business Gateway New Road   (South Africa)

^g CIRAD   (France)

^h WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

ⁱ Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^j OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l Ministry of Health Malawi   (Malawi)

^m Climate Change Research Network   (United States)

ⁿ International Potato Center (CIP)   (Malawi)

^o Northern Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute   (Viet Nam)

^p Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock   (Zambia)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD SECURITY; FOOD SUPPLY; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY MAKING; RAINFALL; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84922965443     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2437     Document Type: Review

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