Coping with change: The transition from subsistence orientated rain-fed agriculture to commercial irrigated agriculture

Geography

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 138-150

  Terry, Alan ^a   Ryder, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD SECURITY; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SMALLHOLDER;

SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 21244434238     PISSN: 00167487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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