Research Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2011
Volume: 6
Issue: 8
Page No. 371 - 380

Development Policies Favoring Non-Agricultural Income Do Not Improve Caloric Intake of Rural Mayan Families in Campeche, Mexico

Authors : L.A. Pat-Fernandez, L. Garcia-Barrios , J. Nahed-Toral , M.R. Parra-Vazquez and A. Nazar-Beutelspacher

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