Setting priorities among indigenous fruit tree species in africa: Examples from Southern, Eastern and Western Africa regions

Indigenous Fruit Trees in the Tropics: Domestication, Utillization and Commercialization

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-69

  Franzel, Steven ^a   Akinnifesi, Festus K ^a   Ham, C ^b  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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