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Plate 5.10 Members of the agroecosystem health village committees from all the inten-
sive study sites reviewing the outcome of an intervillage evaluation meeting together with
officials of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), Githima intensive
study site, Kiambu district, Kenya, May 2000.
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