Biodiversity can support a greener revolution in Africa

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2010-11-22

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1007199107PMID 21098285PMCID PMC2996441
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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