Livelihood and environmental trade-offs of climate mitigation in smallholder coffee agroforestry systems

Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 370-381

  Méndez, V Ernesto ^a   Castro Tanzi, Sebastian ^d   Goodall, Katherine ^d   Morris, Katlyn S ^d   Bacon, Christopher M ^b   Läderach, Peter ^c   Morris, William B ^a   Georgeoglou Laxalde, Maria Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)   (Nicaragua)

^d Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Group University of Vermont ^*

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203144510     Document Type: Chapter

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