Poverty Alleviation and Smallholder Agriculture: The Rural Poverty Report 2011

Development and Change

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 439-448

  Van der Ploeg, Jan Douwe ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; POVERTY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; RURAL ECONOMY; SMALLHOLDER;

EID: 84857328512     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01761.x     Document Type: Article

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