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Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh: The Maya forest garden: eight millennia of sustainable cultivation of the tropical woodlands

Left Coast Press, Inc., California, 2015, 260 pp, ISBN 978-1-61132-997-1

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Suresh Ramanan, S. Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh: The Maya forest garden: eight millennia of sustainable cultivation of the tropical woodlands. Agric Hum Values 35, 739–740 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-017-9839-z

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