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Land Restoration Amid Male Outmigration

The Cases of Burkina Faso and Kenya

Jennifer C. Langill, Mary Crossland, Marlène Elias, Barbara Vinceti, Ana Maria Paez Valencia, Alain Traoré and Daouda Traoré
Ecological Restoration, December 2023, 41 (4) 220-235; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.41.4.220
Jennifer C. Langill
Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Canada, H3A 0B9,
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Mary Crossland
World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor
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Marlène Elias
Bioversity International, Rome, Italy
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Barbara Vinceti
Bioversity International, Rome, Italy
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Ana Maria Paez Valencia
World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya
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Alain Traoré
Association tiipaalga, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; and Solidagro, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Daouda Traoré
Association tiipaalga, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; and SPONG, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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