Crop advisors as climate information brokers: Building the capacity of US farmers to adapt to climate change

This paper examines the role of crop advisors as brokers of climate information to support US corn farmers to adapt to climatic change. It uses quantitative data collected from a broad survey of crop advisors in the US Corn Belt to examine the factors that shape advisors’ use of (and willingness to...

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Main Authors: Maria Carmen Lemos, Yun-Jia Lo, Christine Kirchhoff, Tonya Haigh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-01-01
Series:Climate Risk Management
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096314000266