Cost implications of agricultural land degradation in Ghana
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Keywords
Land degradation; Costs; Agricultural soil loss; Economywide modeling; Modeling cost of land degradation;All these keywords.
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2008-03-25 (Africa)
- NEP-AGR-2008-03-25 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2008-03-25 (Development)
- NEP-EFF-2008-03-25 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-ENV-2008-03-25 (Environmental Economics)
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