Assessing links between crop diversity and food self-sufficiency in three agroecological regions of Nepal

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1239-1251

  KC, Krishna Bahadur ^a   Pant, Laxmi Prasad ^a   Fraser, Evan D G ^a   Shrestha, Pratap Kumar ^b   Shrestha, Dinesh ^c   Lama, Anga ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b USC Canada   (Nepal)

^c Parivartan Nepal ^*  (Nepal)

^d Self Help Initiative Promotion Centre   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Agrobiodiversity; Development; Food security; Nepal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939231152     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0851-9     Document Type: Article

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