Rainforest alliance certification of Kenyan tea farms: a contribution to sustainability or tokenism?

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  2013

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  Journal of Cleaner Production

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  Business, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.JCLEPRO.2012.07.048
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