Non-Timber Forest Products and Rural Poverty Alleviation in Zambia
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Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2012-05-22 (Africa)
- NEP-AGR-2012-05-22 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2012-05-22 (Environmental Economics)
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