Agriculture: Weather dilemma for African maize

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dc.contributor.authorAuffhammer, M.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialAfricaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:08:22Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:08:22Zen
dc.date.issued2011en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis article describes a study that evaluates the effect of climate change and temperature increases on maize. Using historical data from more than 20,000 field trials of maize conducted in Africa, these researchers analyzed how crop yields will respond to temperature and rainfall changes. These changes in climate can have huge implications for crop yields because of the sensitivity of crops under drought and other extreme weather conditions. This article suggests that it is important to understand the effect of these changes in order to address food insecurity and take proper actions, such as reducing human impacts on the environment or developing more drought-resistant crop varieties.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier4835en
dc.identifier.citationNature Climate Change 1: 27-28en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1061en
dc.identifier.issn1758-678Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/69065en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherNature Publishing Groupen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1061.htmlen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2011 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectFood securityen
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen
dc.subjectClimate controlen
dc.subjectDroughten
dc.subjectSoil qualityen
dc.subjectExtreme weather eventen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectStaple cropsen
dc.subjectTemperature increaseen
dc.subjectMaizeen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Field Scaleen
dc.titleAgriculture: Weather dilemma for African maizeen
dc.typeAbstracten
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