Potential impact of climate and socioeconomic changes on future agricultural land use in West Africa

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 151-165

  Ahmed, Kazi Farzan ^a   Wang, Guiling ^a   You, Liangzhi ^b   Yu, Miao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC TRADING; FOOD SUPPLY; LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; HUMAN DECISION MAKING; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; DECISION MAKING; FOOD SUPPLY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84975745831     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-7-151-2016     Document Type: Article

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