Buffer capacity: capturing a dimension of resilience to climate change in African smallholder agriculture
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عنوان ژورنال: Regional Environmental Change
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1436-3798,1436-378X
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0391-5