Food sovereignty movement activism in South Korea: National policy impacts?

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 247-258

  Burmeister, Larry L ^a   Choi, Yong Ju ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Agricultural Cooperative Federation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Food sovereignty; Korean Peasant League; Korean Women Peasants Association; La Via Campesina; South Korea; Transnational agrarian movements; WTO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861223909     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-011-9335-9     Document Type: Article

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