The adoption of alley farming and Mucuna: lessons for research, development and extension

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  2002

• Venue

  Agroforestry Systems

• Publication date

  2002-12-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Business

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  DOI 10.1023/A:1021319028117
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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