Diversity of indigenous fruit trees and their contribution to nutrition and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: Examples from Kenya and Cameroon

Diversifying Food and Diets: Using Agricultural Biodiversity to Improve Nutrition and Health

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 257-269

  Kehlenbeck, Katja ^a   Asaah, Ebenezar ^a   Jamnadass, Ramni ^a  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

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EID: 84920587186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203127261     Document Type: Chapter

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