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Author or Institution as Author
Piet van Asten
Co-authors

Dennis Ochola, Lydia Wairegi, Anaclet Nibasumba, Laurence Jassogne, David Mukasa

Resource Type
Curated Content
Category
Best Practice
Date of Publication
Aug 01, 2015
Language
English
Description/Abstract

Coffee-Banana Itercropping is a climate-smart agricultural practice based on indigenous knowledge. It increases farmer incomes, improves resilience to climatic impacts, and sequesters higher amounts of carbon as opposed to monocropping systems. The practice also has positive effects for rural women and household nutrition.

Institution
GACSA
Citation

Piet van Asten, Dennis Ochola, Lydia Wairegi, Anaclet Nibasumba, Laurence Jassogne, David Mukasa, 2015. Practice Brief Climate-smart agriculture, GACSA. www.fao.org/gacsa 

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