Cheap food policy: Fact or rhetoric?

Food Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 98-111

  Miller, J Corey ^a   Coble, Keith H ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodity programs; Consumers; Obesity

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICE; ECONOMETRICS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD POLICY; MODELING; OBESITY; PUBLIC SPENDING; SOCIAL IMPACT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845197220     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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