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The BOSTID Innovation Program
Pages 158-160

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... By and large, these books aim to catalyze actions within the Third World, but they usually are useful in the United States, Europe, Japan, and other industrialized nations as well. To date, the BOSTID innovation project on underexploited Third World resources (Noel Vietmeyer, director and scientific editor)
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... 69 pp. Little-Known Asian Animals With Promising Economic Future (1983~.
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... 151 pp. Vetiver: A Thin Green Line Against Erosion (19921.
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