Maintaining the 'clean green' image: Governance of on-farm environmental practices in the New Zealand dairy industry

Agri-Food Commodity Chains and Globalising Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 75-87

  Blackett, Paula ^a   Le Heron, Richard ^b  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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