The coffee agroecosystem in the neotropics: Combining ecological and economic goals

Tropical Agroecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 150-194

  Perfecto, Ivette ^a   Armbrecht, Inge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

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