Can sub-Saharan Africa feed itself?

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

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

• Publication date

  2016-12-12

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Economics, Geography, Environmental Science, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1610359113PMID 27956604PMCID PMC5206509
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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