Research Journal of Applied Sciences

Year: 2011
Volume: 6
Issue: 5
Page No. 344 - 348

Rural Livelihood in South-West Nigeria: Strategies, Assets Ownerships and the Non-Farm Income

Authors : Ajibola Akeem Olusola and K.O. Adenegan

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