Trees, soils, and food security

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1356, 1997, Pages 949-961

  Sanchez, Pedro A ^a   Buresh, Roland J ^a   Leakey, Roger R B ^a  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; AGROFORESTRY ROLE; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SOIL FERTILITY; TREES ON FARMLAND;

AFRICA;

CINDERELLA;

EID: 0030849032     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0074     Document Type: Article

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