Reinforcing sound management through trade: Shea tree products in Africa

Unasylva

Volumn 55, Issue 219, 2004, Pages 46-52

  Masters, Eliot T ^a   Yidana, Joshua A ^b   Lovett, Peter N ^c  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

^c West Africa Trade Hub   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST PRODUCT; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; TIMBER TRADE;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BUTYROSPERMUM; VITELLARIA PARADOXA;

EID: 17444412323     PISSN: 00416436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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