Agricultural research priority setting under multiple objectives: an example from Zimbabwe
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عنوان ژورنال: Agricultural Economics
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0169-5150,1574-0862
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.1999.tb00573.x