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Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices Adoption among Smallholder Coffee Farmers: Insights from Agricultural Cooperatives in Southern Highlands, Tanzania

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|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17306/j.jard.2025.4.00031r1 | Journal eISSN: 1899-5772 | Journal ISSN: 1899-5241
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