Bright spots: Pathways to ensuring food security and environmental integrity

Conserving Land, Protecting Water

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 191-204

  Noble, Andrew ^a   Bossio, Deborah ^b   Pretty, Jules ^c   De Vries, Frits Penning ^d  

^a WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (Netherlands)

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