The 'Diplomatic Crop' or how the US provided critical leadership in ending the rice crisis

The Rice Crisis: Markets, Policies and Food Security

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 313-341

  Slayton, Tom ^a  

^a The Rice Trader   (United States)

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