2009 AFHVS presidential address: The steering question: Challenges to achieving food system sustainability

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-12

  Gillespie, Gilbert W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrifood social movement; Food system; Governance; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 75849129609     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-009-9243-4     Document Type: Article

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