Scaling up farmer-managed natural regeneration in Africa to restore degraded landscapes

Biotropica

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 834-843

  Reij, Chris ^a   Garrity, Dennis ^a,b  

^a WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Africa; agroforestry systems; assisted natural regeneration; Burkina Faso; Ethiopia; Malawi; Mali; Niger; on farm natural regeneration; scaling up strategy; Senegal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995967827     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12390     Document Type: Article

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