Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Peasant Studies
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0306-6150,1743-9361
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2016.1263187