The adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers to climate change in the Northern Region of Ghana

Climate Risk Management - Tập 17 - Trang 104-122 - 2017
Majeed Abdul-Razak1, Sylvia Kruse1
1University of Freiburg, Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy, Tennenbacherstr. 4, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany

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