The Challenge of Global Governance of Land Grabbing: Changing International Agricultural Context and Competing Political Views and Strategies

Globalizations

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 161-179

  Borras, Saturnino M ^a   Franco, Jennifer C ^b   Wang, Chunyu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b Transnational Institute   (Netherlands)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Committee on World Food Security; flex crops; governance; land grabbing; large scale land acquisitions; voluntary guidelines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874133091     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2013.764152     Document Type: Article

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