Vulnerability to Desertification in a Sub-Saharan Region: A First Local Assessment in Five Villages of Southern Region of Malawi

The study took place between July and September 2008 with the main objective to develop a first local environmental assessment suitable to obtain a general description of the agro-system environment of five villages in the Southern Region of Malawi. The research has been carried out in an administra...

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Published in:	Italian Journal of Agronomy
Main Authors:	Riccardo Giuseppe Boschetto, Rahma Mustafa Mohamed, Jacopo Arrigotti
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2010-10-01
Subjects:	desertification Malawi local assessment Sub-Saharan region.
Online Access:	https://www.agronomy.it/index.php/agro/article/view/72

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