Genetically modified crops and global food security

Frontiers of Economics and Globalization

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 29-54

  Qaim, Matin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Developing countries; Food security; Poverty; Smallholder farmers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896512016     PISSN: 15748715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1574-8715(2011)0000010007     Document Type: Article

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