Let the market decide? Canadian farmers fight the logic of market choice in GM wheat

ACME

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-131

  Eaton, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetic modification; Market choice; Neoliberalism; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951719970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14929732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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