Alternative strategies in the UK agro-food system: Interrogating the alterity of farmers' markets

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 395-415

  Kirwan, James ^a  

^a University of Gloucestershire ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; FOOD MARKET; FOOD PRODUCTION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 10244249187     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2004.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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