Scale variability of water, land, and energy resource interactions and their influence on the food system in Uganda

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 79-95

  Mukuve, Feriha Mugisha ^a   Fenner, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food security; Multi scale modelling; Resource demand analysis; Resource sustainability; Sub Saharan Africa; Water Land Energy nexus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949675355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23525509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2015.07.009     Document Type: Article

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