From famine to food crisis: What history can teach us about local and global subsistence crises

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-65

  Vanhaute, Eric ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Famines; Global food crisis; Peasantries

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; FAMINE; MODERNIZATION; PEASANT AGRICULTURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUNGER; LEGAL ASPECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; STARVATION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SUPPLY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; HUNGER; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; STARVATION;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 78651481997     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2010.538580     Document Type: Article

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