Understanding forest transition in the Philippines: Main farm-level factors influencing smallholder's capacity and intention to plant native timber trees

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-60

  Martín, Fernando Santos ^a   Bertomeu, Manuel ^b   van Noordwijk, Meine ^a   Navarro, Rafael ^c  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute NAFRI   (Laos)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agroforestation; Household survey; Land management; Natural forest; Upland farmers

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND TENURE; SMALLHOLDER; TIMBER;

PHILIPPINES;

EID: 84857797868     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-011-9166-y     Document Type: Article

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