Exploring the Resilience of Bt Cotton's 'Pro-Poor Success Story'

Development and Change

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 955-981

  Glover, Dominic ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; DEVELOPING WORLD; INNOVATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; FOOD HANDLING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FOOD SUPPLY; FOOD TECHNOLOGY; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POVERTY AREAS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 78649441840     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2010.01667.x     Document Type: Article

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