Designing and evaluating alternatives for more sustainable natural resource management in less-favoured areas

Sustainable Poverty Reduction in Less Favoured Areas

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 63-90

  López Ridaura, Santiago ^a   Van Keulen, Herman ^a   Giller, Ken E ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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