Agroforestry: Participatory Domestication of Trees

Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 253-269

  Leakey, R R B ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Commercialization; Community; Cultivar; Domestication; Genetic selection; Land rehabilitation; Livelihoods; Propagation; Sustainable intensification; Tree products

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949284965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52512-3.00025-5     Document Type: Chapter

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