Smallholders Caught in Poverty-Flickering Signs of Agricultural Dynamism

African Smallholders: Food Crops, Markets and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 74-106

  Jirström, Magnus ^a   Andersson, Agnes ^a   Djurfeldt, Göran ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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