Environmental Conservation for Food Production and Sustainable Livelihood in Tropical Africa

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 629-631

  Nyssen, Jan ^a   Frankl, Amaury ^a   Zenebe, Amanuel ^b   Poesen, Jean ^c   Deckers, Jozef ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adoption of innovations; Sediment budget; Smallholder farmers; Soil and water conservation; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRODUCTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INNOVATION; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SMALLHOLDER; SOIL CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

AFRICA;

EID: 84944535189     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2379     Document Type: Article

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