Synergies and trade-offs for sustainable agriculture: Nutritional yields and climate-resilience for cereal crops in Central India

Global Food Security

Volumn 11, Issue , 2016, Pages 44-53

  DeFries, Ruth ^a   Mondal, Pinki ^a,b   Singh, Deepti ^c   Agrawal, Ishan ^d   Fanzo, Jessica ^e   Remans, Roseline ^a,f   Wood, Stephen ^g  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d Foundation for Ecological Security   (India)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central India; Climate resilience; Coarse cereals; Nutritional yields; Sustainable agriculture; Trade off analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978963571     PISSN: 22119124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2016.07.001     Document Type: Review

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