From Farmers to Loggers: The Role of Shifting Cultivation Landscapes in Timber Production in Cameroon

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-85

  Robiglio, Valentina ^a   Lescuyer, Guillaume ^b,c   Cerutti, Paolo Omar ^b,d  

^a International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA)   (Cameroon)

^b Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)   (Cameroon)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cocoa agroforests; Domestic timber sector; Fallow management; Farmers' livelihoods; On farm timber; Small scale logging

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROFORESTRY; COCOA; CULTIVATION; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; LANDSCAPE; LOGGING (TIMBER); TIMBER; TIMBER MARKET;

CAMEROON;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84874802588     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-012-9205-3     Document Type: Article

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