Low income farmers of Africa s humid tropics face a number of [roblems ,arising from constantly flactuating prices of cash crops in international market increase forest logging that has confined them in smaller and less fertile areas ,with little or reduced access to forest resources .ICRAF has been working with them to increase the productivity of their limited farming areas through sustainable resource management optios like improved fallow as well as the domestication an commercialisation of high value indigenous trees.
Publication year
2007
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
humid tropics, living standards, farmers, income, indigenous species, food security, environmental impact
