Canada's evolving seed regime: Relations of industry, state, and seed savers

Environments

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-18

  Phillips, Catherine ^a  

^a BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corporate control; Seed policy; Seed saving; Seed systems

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DIVERSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; PROFITABILITY; SEED PRODUCTION; STATE OWNED ENTERPRISE; STATE ROLE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 67949124690     PISSN: 07116780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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