Land-use dynamics in enset-based agroforestry homegardens in Ethiopia

Forest-people Interfaces: Understanding Community Forestry and Biocultural Diversity

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 69-85

  Abebe, Tesfaye ^a   Bongers, Frans ^b  

^a HAWASSA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Coffee; Enset ventricosum; Ethiopia; Livelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881518009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-749-3_4     Document Type: Chapter

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