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Small farmers’ access to high-value
markets: what can we learn from the
Malawi pigeopea value chain?
Makoka, Donald
University of Malawi, Centre for Agricultural Research and
Development
8 January 2009
Online at
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15397/
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