Food, Feed, Fuel: Transforming the Competition for Grains

Development and Change

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 529-557

  Banerjee, Arindam ^a  

^a Research and Information System for Developing Countries RIS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL;

ETHANOL; FOOD SUPPLY; GRAIN SIZE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CEREAL; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; POVERTY; STARVATION; TECHNOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL FEED; BIOFUELS; CEREALS; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; FOOD SUPPLY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INTERNATIONALITY; POVERTY AREAS; STARVATION; TECHNOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79954601731     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01704.x     Document Type: Article

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