Non-certified organic agriculture: An opportunity for resource-poor farmers?

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 135-140

  Cáceres, Daniel ^a,b  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agroecology; Argentina; Local markets; Organic agriculture; Organic certification; Resource poor farmers

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644454999     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000005774378775     Document Type: Article

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