Economic trade-offs of biomass use in crop-livestock systems: Exploring more sustainable options in semi-arid Zimbabwe
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2014.06.009
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Crop-livestock intensification; Biomass trade-offs; Farm types; Economic impacts; Zimbabwe;All these keywords.
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