Argentine clustering of soy biodiesel production: The role of international networks and the global soy oil and meal markets

Open Geography Journal

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 45-54

  Tomei, Julia ^a   Upham, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agroindustry; Argentina; Clustering; Production networks; Soy based biodiesel

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX; HELIANTHUS;

EID: 79951849119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18749232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874923201104010045     Document Type: Article

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