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Balancing Democracy with Service Delivery: Power Relations, Politics and Accountability in Cooperatives Supporting Emergent Livestock Farmers in South Africa Cover

Balancing Democracy with Service Delivery: Power Relations, Politics and Accountability in Cooperatives Supporting Emergent Livestock Farmers in South Africa

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|Feb 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.973 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 26, 2019
Accepted on: Nov 4, 2019
Published on: Feb 18, 2020
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