Small Scale, High Value: Gnetum africanum and buchholzianum Value Chains in Cameroon

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 539-556

  Ingram, Verina ^a,b   Ndumbe, Louis Njie ^c   Ewane, Marcus Elah ^d  

^a Central Africa Regional Office   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Environmental Education Conservation and Research (EECORE)   (Cameroon)

^d Environmental Management Systems (CPH) Smithfield   (United States)

Author keywords

Livelihood; Non timber forest product; Sustainability; Trade; Value chain analysis

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIMBER HARVESTING;

CAMEROON; CONGO BASIN; NIGERIA;

GNETUM; GNETUM AFRICANUM;

EID: 84870450829     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-012-9200-8     Document Type: Article

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