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CAWT entrepreneurship: improving livelihoods by generating income through agricultural ventures

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CAWT provides farmers with many benefits: higher production, less labor, less erosion, less pollution, clean water, fresh air, healthy soil, natural fertility, food, fiber and biofuels carbon credits, beautiful landscape, sustainability of soil and the environment, and income from the sale of many different products. With value addition, CAWT has many products both for food and for sale by farmers e.g. crops from the farm like beans, timber, firewood, fruits, milk and milk products, meat from animals, feed for livestock (from trees in the farm), kernels, dye, cam wood pulp for paper industry, jam, jelly, chew sticks, oil, wine, thatch, medicines and many more.
    Publication year

    2014

    Authors

    World Agroforestry

    Language

    English

    Keywords

    entrepreneurship, livelihoods, conservation, income, agriculture

    Geographic

    Kenya

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