The spread of Conservation Agriculture: justification, sustainability and uptake

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

• Publication date

  2009-11-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Business, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3763/ijas.2009.0477
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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