Promising start, bleak outlook: The role of Ghana's modified taungya system as a social safeguard in timber legality processes
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2012.11.011
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Modified taungya system; Social safeguards; Voluntary Partnership Agreement; REDD+; Ghana;All these keywords.
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