The Chagga home gardens: a multi-storeyed agro-forestry cropping system on Mt. Kilimanjaro, northern Tanzania.

Abstract

Identifies major components, describes their interactions and management aspects, and evaluates the system's ecological stability, productivity, and sustainability. Finds Chagga home gardens sustainable on erosion-prone slopes, and they conserve soil, nutrient-cycling, and have other benefits such as labour efficiency.-from Authors