Do Supermarkets Change the Food Policy Agenda?

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1812-1819

  Timmer, C Peter ^a  

^a CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

agricultural diversification; food policy; poverty; structural transformation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DIVERSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL MARKET; FOOD POLICY; FOOD PRODUCTION; MARKETING; POLICY ANALYSIS; POVERTY DETERMINANT; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; RETAILING; SMALLHOLDER;

EID: 70350041739     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.08.022     Document Type: Article

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