Food production and climate protection-What abandoned lands can do to preserve natural forests

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1064-1072

  Knoke, Thomas ^a   Calvas, Baltazar ^a   Moreno, Santiago Ochoa ^b   Onyekwelu, Jonathan C ^c   Griess, Verena C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA PARTICULAR DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Climate protection; Ecuador; Environmental protection; Food production; Land use; Tropical farmers

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD PRODUCTION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PASTURE; POLLUTION; SOIL EROSION;

ECUADOR;

BOS;

EID: 84886719977     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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