The financial return of cereal farming for smallholder farmers in the central highlands of Ethiopia

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-153

  Duguma, Lalisa Alemayehu ^a   Darnhofer, Ika ^a   Hager, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

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EID: 77949775129     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: 14694441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479709990846     Document Type: Article

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