Agricultural biodiversity and how human culture is shaping it

Researching the Culture in Agri-Culture: Social Research for International Agricultural Development

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 264-284

  Eyzaguirre, Pablo B ^a  

^a International Society of Ethnobiology   (Bhutan)

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