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Capacity Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries - Clean-up of obsolete pesticides, pesticides management and sustainable pest management project - GCP/INT/063/EC

Final Evaluation Report

Year of publication 2014

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 110 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Category Evaluation report

Series title Project Evaluation Series

Edition 1

Language English

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