Ethno-cognitive connections between HIV/AIDS and banana plants in the Bahaya agricultural society in north-western Tanzania

NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 191-200

  Githinji, Valerie ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ekiuka; Food and nutrition; Health; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH IMPACT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NUTRITION; POVERTY; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL SOCIETY; SOIL FERTILITY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

EID: 63349103660     PISSN: 15735214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-5214(08)80007-3     Document Type: Article

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