On heretics and God's blanket salesmen, Contested claims for conservation agriculture and the politics of its promotion in African smallholder farming

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  2012

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  2012-03-15

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Political Science, Sociology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.4324/9780203125434-8
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