Household attributes promote diversity of tree holdings in rural areas, South Africa

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 221-230

  Shackleton, Charlie M ^a   Paumgarten, Fiona ^a   Cocks, Michelle L ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Gender; Homesteads; Household attributes; Species richness; Tree density; Wealth

Indexed keywords

FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLD; GENDER; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SEMIARID REGION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VILLAGE;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 38649114405     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-007-9066-5     Document Type: Article

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