Environmentally sustainable food production and marketing: Opportunity or hype?

British Food Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 677-690

  Bhaskaran, Suku ^a   Polonsky, Michael ^a   Cary, John ^a   Fernandez, Shadwell ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Organic foods; Sustainable development; Value chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747124318     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00070700610682355     Document Type: Review

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