Conclusions and a look ahead

The African Food Crisis: Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 253-259

  Akande, Tunji ^a   Djurfeldt, Göran ^b   Holmén, Hans ^c   Isinika, Aida C ^d  

^a Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research   (Nigeria)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

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