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The story of the moment: risk averse cypriot farmers respond to drought management

Ben Groom Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK
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Phoebe Koundouri Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business and Department of Economics, University College London, London, UK
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Céline Nauges INRA-LERNA, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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Alban Thomas INRA-LERNA, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, FranceCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 315-326 | Published online: 11 Apr 2011

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