Farmer portfolios, strategic diversity management and climate-change adaptation - implications for policy in Vietnam and Kenya

Climate and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 216-225

  Hoang, M H ^a,b   Namirembe, S ^a   van Noordwijk, M ^c   Catacutan, D ^a   Oborn I ^a,b   Perez Teran, A S ^a   Nguyen, H Q ^a   Dumas Johansen, M K ^a  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c ICRAF World Agroforestry Centre Bogor   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

agroforestry; climate variability; incentive; Kenya; landscape; payment for environmental services; Vietnam; water scarcity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905407046     PISSN: 17565529     EISSN: 17565537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2013.857588     Document Type: Article

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