Land-use system modeling and analysis of shaded cacao production in Belize

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-129

  Rosenberg, David E ^a,b   Marcotte, Travis P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c CARESDA   (Belize)

Author keywords

Cocoa; Fair trade; Organic; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; COCOA; LAND USE; MODELING;

BELIZE; CENTRAL AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CORDIA; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 18144405024     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-004-0535-9     Document Type: Article

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