'Post-productivist' agricultural regimes and the South: Discordant concepts?

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 681-707

  Wilson, Geoff A ^a   Rigg, Jonathan ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deagrarianization; Indicators of agricultural and rural change; Post productivist agricultural regimes; Rural South; Sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY; RURAL ECONOMY; SUSTAINABILITY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0347594760     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0309132503ph450oa     Document Type: Article

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