Financial cost-benefit analysis of bench terraces in Rwanda

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 103-115

  Bizoza, A R ^a   de Graaff, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bench and progressive terraces; Costs and benefits; Financial profitability; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

BENCH AND PROGRESSIVE TERRACES; BENCH TERRACES; COSTS AND BENEFITS; ECONOMIC CONDITION; FINANCIAL GAINS; MARKET PRICE; OPPORTUNITY COSTS; POTATO YIELD; RWANDA; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; LANDFORMS; MANURES; PROFITABILITY; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EROSION CONTROL; PROFITABILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; TERRACING;

RWANDA;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84859640121     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.1051     Document Type: Article

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