Enhancing food security: Food crop portfolio choice in response to climatic risk in India

Global Food Security

Volumn 12, Issue , 2017, Pages 22-30

  Khanal, Aditya R ^a   Mishra, Ashok K ^b  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic risk; Farm households; Food crop portfolio; India; Intercropping; Mixed cropping; Off farm income; Single index approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007388691     PISSN: 22119124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2016.12.003     Document Type: Review

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