Investments and returns from cooperative and household managed woodlots in Zimbabwe: Implications for rural afforestation policy

Land Use Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 139-152

  Jagger, Pamela ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Marty) Luckert M K   (Canada)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Cooperatives; Eucalyptus; Rate of return; Woodlots; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; COOPERATIVE SECTOR; INVESTMENT; LAND USE PLANNING; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; RURAL POLICY; TREE PLANTING;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 84984548793     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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