Livelihood strategies and the role of forest income in participatory-managed forests of Dodola area in the bale highlands, southern Ethiopia

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 258-265

  Tesfaye, Yemiru ^a   Roos, Anders ^a   Campbell, Bruce M ^b   Bohlin, Folke ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Co management; Forest user groups; Income diversification; Livelihood diversity; Rural livelihoods

Indexed keywords

CO-MANAGEMENT; INCOME DIVERSIFICATION; LIVELIHOOD DIVERSITY; RURAL LIVELIHOODS; USER GROUPS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOOD SUPPLY; FORESTRY;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; ETHIOPIA; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; INCOMES; MARKET RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79954632353     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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