Analyzing successes in agriculture and land management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is macro-level gloom obscuring positive micro-level change?

Land Use Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 410-420

  Reij, C P ^a   Smaling, E M A ^b,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Land management; Soil and water conservation; Sub Saharan Africa; Success

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; COMMODITY; LAND MANAGEMENT; SOIL CONSERVATION;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 41549094425     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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