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African Seed Enterprises: Sowing the Seeds of Food Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 8-24

  Bentley, Jeffery W ^a   Mele, Paul Van ^b   Reece, J David ^c  

^a Agro Insight ^*

^b AFRICA RICE CENTER AFRICARICE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^c AFRICA RICE CENTER AFRICARICE   (Benin)

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