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Cultivating Their Own : Agriculture in Western Kenya during the "Development" Era /

After more than fifty years of development, why have interventions and aid failed to yield greater poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa? Why did the agricultural development projects that were transpiring in places like Kenya during the "development era" of the 1950s and 1960s not tak...

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Autor principal: Saeteurn, Muey C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer Ltd. 2020.
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