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Research Articles

A feminist political ecology of agricultural mechanization and evolving gendered on-farm labor dynamics in northern Ghana

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Pages 207-233 | Received 01 Jul 2019, Accepted 29 Oct 2019, Published online: 29 Nov 2019

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