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A Model Based Method to Assess Climate Change Impacts on Rain-Fed Farming Systems: How to Analyze Crop-Yield Variability?

Authors : Benjamin Stuch, Rüdiger Schaldach, Jan Schüngel

Published in: Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

Since the introduction of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) during the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, large efforts have been made to eradicate extreme poverty and half the number of starving people within the time span from 1990 to 2015 (to no more than 420 million).

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Metadata
Title
A Model Based Method to Assess Climate Change Impacts on Rain-Fed Farming Systems: How to Analyze Crop-Yield Variability?
Authors
Benjamin Stuch
Rüdiger Schaldach
Jan Schüngel
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2_29