Conservation Agriculture in mixed crop–livestock systems: Scoping crop residue trade-offs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

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  2012

• Venue

  Field Crops Research

• Publication date

  2012-06-14

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.FCR.2012.02.022
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