Modeling the Relationship Between Pesticide Use and Farmers' Beliefs about Water Pollution in Burkina Faso
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Water quality; Pesticides use; Beliefs; Positional objectivism; Recursive bivariate probit model; Burkina Faso;All these keywords.
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