Seed regulation: Choices on the road to reform

Food Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 433-446

  Tripp, Robert ^a   Louwaars, Niels ^b  

^a OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL REFORM; PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION; SEED REGULATIONS;

EID: 0031392322     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9192(97)00033-X     Document Type: Article

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