Attitudes of the Portuguese farmers to the EU common agricultural policy;Postoje portugalských farmářů ke společné zemědělské politice EU

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 460-469

  Dos Santos, Maria José Palma Lampreia ^a   de Sousa Henriques, Pedro Damião ^b   de Sousa Fragoso, Rui Manuel ^b   da Silva Carvalho, Maria Leonor Pimenta Verdete ^b  

^a Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Common agricultural policy; Farm's typologies; Mediterranean region

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649393759     PISSN: 0139570X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/123/2009-agricecon     Document Type: Article

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