Indirect and external costs of pesticide use in the vegetable sub-sector in Kenya

Vegetable Production and Marketing in Africa: Socio-economic Research

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 227-242

  Macharia, Ibrahim ^a   Mithöfer, Dagmar ^b   Waibel, Hermann ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

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