Does climatic crisis in Australia's food bowl create a basis for change in agricultural gender relations?

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-128

  Alston, Margaret ^a   Whittenbury, Kerri ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Family farming; Gender; Labor; Resistance; Tradition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874018345     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-012-9382-x     Document Type: Article

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