Water productivity and food security: considering more carefully the farm-level perspective

Food Security

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 247-260

  Wichelns, Dennis ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop per drop; Economics; Irrigation; Production functions; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939941862     PISSN: 18764517     EISSN: 18764525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-015-0426-0     Document Type: Article

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