Ecoagriculture: Agriculture, environmental conservation, and poverty reduction at a landscape scale

The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 64-86

  Scherr, Sara ^a   McNeely, Jeffrey A ^b   Shames, Seth ^c  

^a REBRAF   (United States)

^b World Conservation Union   (United States)

^c Center for Industrial Ecology   (United States)

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