Farmers' willingness to pay for community integrated pest management training in Nepal

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 399-409

  Atreya, Kishor ^a  

^a Alternative Development and Research Center (ADRC)   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Community IPM; Nepal; Pesticide pollution; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547595112     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-007-9063-3     Document Type: Article

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