Unique Combinations of Stakeholders in a Transfrontier Conservation Area Promote Biodiversity-Agriculture Integration

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 275-295

  Chitakira, Munyaradzi ^a   Torquebiau, Emmanuel ^a,b   Ferguson, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Campus International de Baillarguet   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; ecoagriculture landscape; livelihoods; stakeholder analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859597545     PISSN: 10440046     EISSN: 15407578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10440046.2011.611584     Document Type: Article

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