A model to calculate ex ante the threshold value of interaction effects necessary for proposed intercropping projects to be feasible to the landowner and desirable to society

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 197-214

  Dyack, B J ^a   Rollins, K ^a   Gordon, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amenity values; Economics; Interactions; Intercropping; Net present value; Temperate

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INTERCROPPING; MODELING;

CANADA;

EID: 0032318844     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006282126349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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