Agri-Food systems and territorial development: Innovations, new dynamics and changing governance mechanisms

Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: The New Dynamic

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 229-256

  Lamine, Claire ^a   Renting, Henk ^b,c   Rossi, Adanella ^d   Han Wiskerke, J S C ^c   Brunori, Gianluca ^d  

^a INRA Ecodeveloppement   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRI-FOOD SYSTEM; CIVIL SOCIETY; FARMING SYSTEM; GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS; HISTORICAL ANALYSIS; SMALL SCALE; TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSITION PROCESS;

EID: 84948070233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4503-2_11     Document Type: Chapter

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