Booming markets for Moroccan argan oil appear to benefit some rural households while threatening the endemic argan forest

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

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

• Publication date

  2011-08-22

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1106382108PMID 21873185PMCID PMC3161605
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