The private governance of food: Equitable exchange or bizarre bazaar?

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-352

  Busch, Lawrence ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Certification; Governance; Retailing; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960985396     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-009-9210-0     Document Type: Article

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