Diminishing choices: Gender, small bags of fertilizer, and household food security decisions in Malawi

African Studies Quarterly

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages

  Uttaro, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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