Vulnerability to Cumulative Hazards: Coping with the Coffee Leaf Rust Outbreak, Drought, and Food Insecurity in Nicaragua

World Development

Volumn 93, Issue , 2017, Pages 136-152

  Bacon, Christopher M ^a   Sundstrom, William A ^a   Stewart, Iris T ^a   Beezer, David ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; climate variability; livelihoods; Nicaragua; resilience

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COPING STRATEGY; DISEASE SPREAD; DROUGHT; FOOD SECURITY; LIVELIHOOD; VULNERABILITY;

NICARAGUA;

EID: 85028281626     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.025     Document Type: Article

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