Assessing the performance of GM maize amongst smallholders in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Gouse, Marnus ^a   Piesse, Jenifer ^b   Thirtle, Colin ^a   Poulton, Colin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Genetically modified; KwaZulu Natal; Maize; Smallholders; South Africa; Stochastic frontiers

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 74949087374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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