The role of agroforestry in building livelihood resilience to floods and drought in semiarid Kenya

Ecology and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Quandt, Amy ^a,b   Neufeldt, Henry ^c   McCabe, J Terrence ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Climate change; Drought; Flood; Kenya; Resilience; Sustainable livelihoods

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FLOOD; LIVELIHOOD; SEMIARID REGION; SMALLHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY;

KENYA;

EID: 85030543147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-09461-220310     Document Type: Article

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