Strategies and economics of farming systems with coffee in the Atlantic Rainforest Biome

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 227-242

  de Souza, Helton Nonato ^a,b   de Graaff, Jan ^a   Pulleman, Mirjam M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coffee agroforestry; Ecosystem services; Family agriculture; Productivity; Profitability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROECOLOGY; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; COFFEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FARMING SYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LEARNING; NATIVE SPECIES; PROFITABILITY; RAINFOREST; SOIL FERTILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS;

EID: 84857057671     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-011-9452-x     Document Type: Article

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