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Soil Erosion and Smallholders' Conservation Decisions in the Highlands of Ethiopia

✍ Scribed by Bekele Shiferaw; Stein Holden

Book ID
114232772
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
123 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
0305-750X

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