The Importance of Local Knowledge and Interdisciplinary Research People, Trees and Agriculture in Africa: Constraints and Options for Improved Management of Trees in Tanzania and Burkina Faso
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The Petrea programme The Petrea research programme focused on how trees and shrubs can be brought into wider use by rural people in semi-arid Africa. The research objective was to identify rural people’s needs in relation to trees, the constraints for improving their benefits from trees, and to propose locally adapted strategies and techniques for improved utilisation of trees. Interdisciplinary teamwork in the field and in publication of research papers remained a central feature of the research programme. The research teams had representatives from the natural as well as the social sciences and the humanities.
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