Poverty impacts of improved agricultural productivity: Opportunities for genetically modified crops

AgBioForum

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 308-313

  Ivanic, Maros ^a   Martin, Will ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79851472046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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