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State Intervention and Agricultural Development in Africa: a Cross-National Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Richard Vengroff  and
Ali Farah
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Growing food deficits and declining agricultural productivity per capita in Africa have become the central concern of an increasing number of studies.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 1985 , pp. 75 - 85
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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