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CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

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Enhancing the livelihoods of small scale farmers through increased income and non income benefits from indigenous trees

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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

    Keywords

    Humid tropics, Living standards, Farmers, Income, Indigenous species, Food security, Environmental impact

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