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The "context" for smallholder farming is a political ecology of agrarian change

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The "context" for smallholder farming is a political ecology of agrarian change. / Batterbury, Simon.
2017. Paper presented at N8 AgriFood 2017 International Sustainable Food Production Conference, Durham, United Kingdom.

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Batterbury, S 2017, 'The "context" for smallholder farming is a political ecology of agrarian change', Paper presented at N8 AgriFood 2017 International Sustainable Food Production Conference, Durham, United Kingdom, 11/07/17 - 13/07/17.

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Batterbury, S. (2017). The "context" for smallholder farming is a political ecology of agrarian change. Paper presented at N8 AgriFood 2017 International Sustainable Food Production Conference, Durham, United Kingdom.

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Batterbury S. The "context" for smallholder farming is a political ecology of agrarian change. 2017. Paper presented at N8 AgriFood 2017 International Sustainable Food Production Conference, Durham, United Kingdom.

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Batterbury, Simon. / The "context" for smallholder farming is a political ecology of agrarian change. Paper presented at N8 AgriFood 2017 International Sustainable Food Production Conference, Durham, United Kingdom.

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