Food and population: D. Gale Johnson and the Green Revolution

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 543-569

  Evenson, Robert E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; CROP PRODUCTION; GREEN REVOLUTION; HIGH YIELDING VARIETY; PLANT BREEDING;

EID: 3843113123     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/383338     Document Type: Article

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