New avenues of farm corporatization in the prairie grains sector: Farm family entrepreneurs and the case of One Earth Farms

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 161-175

  Magnan, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aboriginal agriculture; Corporate farms; Family farms; Financialization; Saskatchewan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861221979     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-011-9327-9     Document Type: Article

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