Adaptation to climate change: The impacts of optimized planting dates on attainable maize yields under rainfed conditions in Burkina Faso

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 205, Issue , 2015, Pages 23-39

  Waongo, M ^a,b   Laux, P ^b   Kunstmann, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; CORDEX; GLAM; Optimized planting date; RCP; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROMETEOROLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; MAIZE; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SOWING DATE;

BURKINA FASO;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84923013947     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.02.006     Document Type: Article

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