Reading the landscape past: Explaining the lack of on-farm tree planting in Ethiopia

Environment and History

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 461-479

  Kassa, Habtemariam ^a   Bekele, Melaku ^a   Campbell, Bruce ^a  

^a Centre for International Forestry Research Ethiopia Office   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Institutions; Policy; Smallholder farmers; Tenure; Tree planting

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; DEVELOPING WORLD; GRAZING; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SMALLHOLDER; TENURE RELATIONS; TENURE SYSTEM; TREE PLANTING; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 80054868867     PISSN: 09673407     EISSN: 17527023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/096734011X13077054787262     Document Type: Article

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