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BOSTID Innovation Program
Pages 373-375

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... By and large, these books aim to catalyze actions within the Third World, but they usually also have utility in the United States, Europe, Japan, and other industrialized nations. So far, the BOSTID innovation project on underexploited ThirdWorld resources (Noel Vietmeyer, Director and Scientific Editor)
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... 69 pp. Little-Known Asian Animals With Promising Economic Future (19831.
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... 427 pp. Microlivestock: Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future (19911.
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