Keeping NTFPs in the forest: Can certification provide an alternative to intensive cultivation?

Ethnobotany Research and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 45-58

  Wilsey, David S ^a   Radachowsky, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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CHAMAEDOREA;

EID: 33947140911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15473465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17348/era.5.0.45-58     Document Type: Review

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