Fighting standards with standards: Harmonization, rents, and social acountability in certified agrofood networks

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2033-2051

  Mutersbaugh, Tad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROINDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GLOBALIZATION; STANDARD (REFERENCE);

EID: 28144440119     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a37369     Document Type: Article

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