Energy, climate change, meat, and markets: Mapping the coordinates of the current world food crisis

Geography Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2065-2083

  Jarosz, Lucy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; DIET; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FOOD MARKET; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PRICE DYNAMICS; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 78049393721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00282.x     Document Type: Article

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