The Political Economy of Policies for Smallholder Agriculture

World Development

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1442-1452

  Birner, Regina ^a   Resnick, Danielle ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agricultural policy; Green Revolution; Political economy; Smallholder agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GREEN REVOLUTION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RURAL ECONOMY; SMALLHOLDER;

AFRICA; ASIA;

EID: 77956878852     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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