US biofuels policy and the global food price crisis: A survey of the issues

The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 59-75

  Elliott, Kimberly Ann ^a  

^a CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

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