Conservation agriculture-based technologies and the political economy: Lessons from South Asia

Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 47-63

  Erenstein, Olaf ^a  

^a International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)   (Ethiopia)

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EID: 84899090964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203125434     Document Type: Chapter

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