A new era for sub-saharan african agriculture? Changing drivers of maize production1

African Smallholders: Food Crops, Markets and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 107-137

  Andersson, Agnes ^a   Djurfeldt, Göran ^a   Holmquist, Björn ^a   Jirström, Magnus ^a   Nasrin, Sultana ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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