Responding to food price volatility and vulnerability: Considering the global economic context

The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 43-57

  Clapp, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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