Shaping Sustainable Intensive Production Systems - Improved Crops and Cropping Systems in the Developing World

This chapter focuses on the impacts of climate change on intensive maize and wheat production systems. Some technologies to close the yield gap to achieve sustainable intensification are also discussed.

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Main Authors: Stirling, Clare M., Hellin, Jonathan, Cairns, Jill E., Silverblatt-Buser E, Tefera, T., Ngugi H, Gbegbelegbe, Sika, Tesfaye Fantaye, Kindie, Chung, U., Sonder, Kai, Cox, R.A., Verhulst, Nele, Govaerts, Bram, Alderman, Phillip D., Reynolds, Matthew P.
Format: Book Chapter biblioteca
Language:English
Published: CAB International 2014
Subjects:climate change, agriculture, food security, crop yield, intensification, maize, wheat,
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68152
https://doi.org/10.1079/9781780642895.0000
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Summary:This chapter focuses on the impacts of climate change on intensive maize and wheat production systems. Some technologies to close the yield gap to achieve sustainable intensification are also discussed.