Model estimates food-versus-biofuel trade-off

California Agriculture

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 199-201

  Rajagopal, Deepak ^a   Sexton, Steven ^a   Hochman, Gal ^a   Roland Hoist, David ^a   Zilberman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 77956109415     PISSN: 00080845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3733/ca.v063n04p199     Document Type: Article

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