The role of Jatropha curcas cultivation in livelihood strategies of small-scale households in rural Tanzania

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1203-1214

  Faße, Anja ^a   Grote, Ulrike ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Bioenergy; Cluster analysis; Multinomial logit; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941995133     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0494-7     Document Type: Article

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