State-centered versus nonstate-driven organic food standardization: A comparison of the US and Sweden

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-180

  Boström, Magnus ^a   Klintman, Mikael ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Advocacy network; Consumer policy; Environmental governance; Organic food labeling; Organic movement; Policy discourse; Political culture; Social movement; Standardization; Sweden; United States

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646898999     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-005-6099-0     Document Type: Article

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