Mali: When government gives entrepreneurs room to grow

African Seed Enterprises: Sowing the Seeds of Food Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 65-88

  Dalohoun, Daniel N ^a   Van Mele, Paul ^b   Weltzien, Eva ^c   Diallo, Dioukamady ^d   Guindo, Hamidou ^e   Vom Brocke, Kirsten ^c  

^a AFRICA RICE CENTER AFRICARICE   (Benin)

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

^c INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (Mali)

^d Laboratoire des Semences (Labosem)   (Mali)

^e Direction Régional Agriculture   (Mali)

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