Farmers' fruit tree-growing strategies in the humid forest zone of Cameroon and Nigeria

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-175

  Degrande, Ann ^a   Schreckenberg, Kathrin ^b   Mbosso, Charlie ^a   Anegbeh, Paul ^c   Okafor, Victoria ^c   Kanmegne, Jacques ^d  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c World Agroforestry Centre   (Nigeria)

^d Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement Wakwa   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Dacryodes edulis; Domestication; Household surveys; Indigenous species; Irvingia gabonensis; Millennium Development Goals; Rural livelihoods; Tree inventory

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROFORESTRY; FOREST RESOURCE; FRUIT; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; LAND USE;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33745070869     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-005-2649-0     Document Type: Article

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