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SUSTREE - SUSTAINABLE USE OF TREE RESOURCES IN THE TROPICS
- Project Leader
- Glatzel Gerhard, Project Leader
- Duration:
- 01.01.2004-31.12.2007
- Programme:
- TP6 - Sustainable development, global change and ecosystems (FP6)
- EU-Project Instruments
- Integrated Project (IP)
- Type of Research
- Applied Research
- Staff
- BOKU Research Units
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Institute of Forest Ecology
- Funded by
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Commission of the European Communities, Rue de la Loi, Brussels, European Union
- Abstract
- Developing a knowledge base for increased and improved use of woody plants to stabilise land degradation, to strengthen the sustainable production of food and to create additional income from marketing woody plant products in African highland regions by interdisciplinary scientific collaboration between plant breeding, forest ecology and organic farming and by sharing of human as well as technical resources between BOKU and ICRAF.
- Keywords
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renewable energy;
forest ecology;
renewable resources;
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Africa;
Degradation;
Highlands;
woody plants;
renewable resources;
