Agroecological impacts of five years of practical program for restoration of a degraded sahelian watershed

Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 145-164

  Manu, Andrew ^a   Thurow, Thomas L ^b   Juo, Anthony S R ^b   Zanguina, Ibrahim ^c  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institut National de Recherches   (Niger)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS; SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATERSHEDS;

ACACIA HOLOSERICEA; AGRO-ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FARMING COMMUNITIES; HERBACEOUS SPECIES; INORGANIC FERTILIZERS; INTENSIVE SURVEY; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS;

FERTILIZERS;

EID: 85056965260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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