Bread in the Economy of Qualities: The Creative Reconstitution of the Canada-UK Commodity Chain for Wheat

Rural Sociology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 197-228

  Magnan, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY MARKET; COMPLEXITY; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; CROP PRODUCTION; RURAL ECONOMY; WHEAT;

CANADA; UNITED KINGDOM;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79957963187     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2010.00038.x     Document Type: Article

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