The tobacco industry in malawi: A globalized driver of local land change

Land-Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 251-268

  Geist, Helmut ^a   Otañez, Marty ^b   Kapito, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Malawian National Human Rights Commission Blantyre   (Malawi)

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EID: 84892210545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-78864-7_14     Document Type: Chapter

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