Canadian agricultural environmental policy: From the right to farm to farming right

The Economics of Regulation in Agriculture: Compliance with Public and Private Standards

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 55-78

  Rajsic, Predrag ^a   Ramlal, Elizabeth ^b   Fox, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Ministry of Agriculture   (Guyana)

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