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GM crops and gender issues

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Figure 1: Returns to labor from Bt cotton and conventional cotton in rural India.

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    Arjunan Subramanian & Kerry Kirwan

  2. University of Warwick, WHRI, Warwickshire, UK

    Arjunan Subramanian & David Pink

  3. Georg-August University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

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