Agroforestry innovations in Africa: Can they improve soil fertility on women farmers' fields?

African Studies Quarterly

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages

  Gladwin, Christina H ^a   Peterson, Jennifer Sheffee ^b   Uttaro, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Africare ^*  (Niger)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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