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    4. The handbook of research on entrepreneurship in agriculture and rural development

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Alsos, Gry A. (author), Carter, Sara (author), Ljunggren, Elisabet (author), and Welter, Friederike (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    International: Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36384
    Notes:
    320 pages.

    8. Indigenous agricultural revolution: ecology and food production in West Africa

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Richards, Paul (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1985
    Published:
    International: Hutchinson, London, England; Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00784
    Notes:
    192 pages., (p. 115) Argues that "subsistence" is misunderstood. Suggests that it specializes in low profit/low risk actions involving food production and local trade rather than high profit/high risk activity linked to urban merchants and long-distance trade routes. (p. 116) "Academic and professional commentators on African agriculture have too often tended either to ignore female farming or to assume that it was undertaken for subsistence purposes."