The Humid and Subhumid Tropics
The humid and subhumid tropics in African regions where rainfall exceeds potential evapotranspiration for five months or more include most of the area from Guinea through central Africa plus the southern part of East Africa. They cover 12 million square kilometers, or 43 percent of the total land ar...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
1987
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| description | The humid and subhumid tropics in African regions where rainfall exceeds potential evapotranspiration for five months or more include most of the area from Guinea through central Africa plus the southern part of East Africa. They cover 12 million square kilometers, or 43 percent of the total land area, and include the humid forest zone of central Africa. Rainfall is over 1 thousand millimeters per annum. Regimes prevalent in these zones are monomodal in the derived savannas, with four to six humid months; bimodal in the transition zones of the tropical forest region, with a major cropping season of four months and a minor season of about two and a half months; and pseudobimodal in the wetter forest regions, with seven to nine or more humid months. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1610322025-04-08T18:31:13Z The Humid and Subhumid Tropics ter Kuile, Coenrad H. H. food production conferences agricultural policies The humid and subhumid tropics in African regions where rainfall exceeds potential evapotranspiration for five months or more include most of the area from Guinea through central Africa plus the southern part of East Africa. They cover 12 million square kilometers, or 43 percent of the total land area, and include the humid forest zone of central Africa. Rainfall is over 1 thousand millimeters per annum. Regimes prevalent in these zones are monomodal in the derived savannas, with four to six humid months; bimodal in the transition zones of the tropical forest region, with a major cropping season of four months and a minor season of about two and a half months; and pseudobimodal in the wetter forest regions, with seven to nine or more humid months. 1987 2024-11-21T09:53:05Z 2024-11-21T09:53:05Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161032 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute ter Kuile, Coenrad H. H. 1987. The Humid and Subhumid Tropics. In Accelerating food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter 7. Pp. 97-108. In Accelerating food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mellor, John W.; Delgado, Christopher L.; Blackie, Malcom J. (Eds.). Baltimore, MD: Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) [by] Johns Hopkins University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161032 |
| spellingShingle | food production conferences agricultural policies ter Kuile, Coenrad H. H. The Humid and Subhumid Tropics |
| title | The Humid and Subhumid Tropics |
| title_full | The Humid and Subhumid Tropics |
| title_fullStr | The Humid and Subhumid Tropics |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Humid and Subhumid Tropics |
| title_short | The Humid and Subhumid Tropics |
| title_sort | humid and subhumid tropics |
| topic | food production conferences agricultural policies |
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