Federal uncertainty or inconsistency? Releasing the new agricultural-environmental biotechnology into the fields

Politics and the Life Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 77-88

  Stewart, Patrick ^a   Sorensen, A Ann ^b  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b American Farmland Trust   (United States)

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EID: 23044525500     PISSN: 07309384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0730938400008923     Document Type: Article

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