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Organization - World Agroforestry Centre
Grant Amount - $310,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - for the costs of its research project on upland sustainable productivity in the Greater Mekong Sub-region through analysis of the physical, social, economic and policy environments prevailing in Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan Province, China


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