Agro-diversity on a farming frontier: Kofyar smallholders on the Benue plains of Central Nigeria

Africa

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-69

  Netting, Robert McC ^a   Stone, M Priscilla ^a  

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EID: 0010605404     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1161511     Document Type: Article

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