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SUBMITTER: Eitzinger A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6054003 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eitzinger Anton A Läderach Peter P Rodriguez Beatriz B Fisher Myles M Beebe Stephen S Sonder Kai K Schmidt Axel A
Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change 20160206 5
Drybeans (<i>Phaseolus vulgaris</i> L.) are an important subsistence crop in Central America. Future climate change may threaten drybean production and jeopardize smallholder farmers' food security. We estimated yield changes in drybeans due to changing climate in these countries using downscaled data from global circulation models (GCMs) in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. We generated daily weather data, which we used in the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer ( ...[more]