Agroforestry Tree Products (AFTPs): Targeting Poverty Reduction and Enhanced Livelihoods
This chapter was previously published in Leakey, R.R.B., Tchoundjeu, Z., Schreckenberg, K., Shackleton, S., Shackleton, C., 2005. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 3, 1–23, with permission of Taylor & Francis
Abstract
An analysis of the constraints facing smallholder farmers in the tropics has identified many interactions between environmental, social and economic factors that create the downward spiral of the “cycle of land degradation and social deprivation.” This paper examines the numerous likely impacts of both the domestication of agroforestry trees and the commercialization of their products, and identifies who are the ...
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