Domestication, utilization and marketing of indigenous fruit trees in West and Central Africa

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 171-185

  Tchoundjeu, Zac ^a   Atangana, A ^a   Asaah Ebenezar, E ^a   Tsobeng, Alain ^a   Facheux, Charly ^a   Foundjem, Divine ^a   Mbosso, Charlie ^a   Degrande, Ann ^a   Sado, Thadée ^a   Kanmegne, Jacques ^a   Mbile, Peter ^a   Tabuna, Honoré ^a   Anegbeh, Paul ^b   Useni, Marcel ^c  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^c World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) West and Central Africa Region   (Democratic Republic Congo)

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