Geographical Indications in Latin America Value Chains: A "branding from below" strategy or a mechanism excluding the poorest?

Journal of Rural Studies

Volumn 32, Issue , 2013, Pages 295-306

  Mancini, Maria Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exclusion; Fair trade certification; Geographical Indications; Global Value Chains; Latin America; Organic certification

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GLOBALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL POLICY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TRADE RELATIONS;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84883645533     PISSN: 07430167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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