Sustainable agriculture and conservation tillage: Managing the contradictions

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 221-251

  Hall, Alan ^a  

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EID: 0041169486     PISSN: 00084948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.1998.tb00229.x     Document Type: Article

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