Sustainable poverty reduction in less-favoured areas: Problems, options and strategies

Sustainable Poverty Reduction in Less Favoured Areas

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-61

  Ruben, Ruerd ^a   Pender, John ^b   Kuyvenhoven, Arie ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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