Agrarian policies for sustainable land use: Bio-economic modelling to assess the effectiveness of policy instruments

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 465-481

  Kruseman, Gideon ^a   Bade, Jan ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; LAND USE; POLICY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE;

MALI;

EID: 0031741305     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-521X(98)00041-9     Document Type: Article

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