Reducing costs and improving benefits in smallholder agriculture carbon projects: Implications for going to scale

Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 69-77

  Shames, Seth ^a   Buck, Louise E ^a   Scherr, Sara J ^a  

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EID: 84892469504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203144510     Document Type: Chapter

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