Historical, environmental and socio-economic driving forces on land ownership fragmentation, the land consolidation effect and project costs
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عنوان ژورنال: Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika)
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0139-570X,1805-9295
DOI: 10.17221/115/2009-agricecon