Intensive Farming, Agro-Diversity, and Food Security Under Conditions of Extreme Population Pressure in Western Kenya

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• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Human Ecology

• Publication date

  2000-03-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Sociology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1023/A:1007075621007
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