Supermarkets and produce quality and safety standards in Latin America

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1147-1154

  Balsevich, Fernando ^a   Berdegué, Julio A ^b   Flores, Luis ^a   Mainville, Denis ^a   Reardon, Thomas ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CEDIT Center for the Integrated Development of Territories   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; RETAILING;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0346009050     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2003.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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