The Importance of Bushmeat in the Livelihoods of West African Cash-Crop Farmers Living in a Faunally-Depleted Landscape

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Schulte Herbrüggen, Björn ^a,b   Cowlishaw, Guy ^a   Homewood, Katherine ^b   Rowcliffe, J Marcus ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BUSHMEAT; CASH CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; FOREST; GHANA; HARVEST PERIOD; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; LANDSCAPE; MALE; MEAT; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WEST AFRICAN; WILDLIFE; WILDLIFE DEPLETED FOREST FARM LANDSCAPE; AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; CROP; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; FAMILY SIZE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA, WESTERN; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; INCOME; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEAT; SEASONS;

EID: 84881579790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072807     Document Type: Article

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