Rights for resilience: Food sovereignty, power, and resilience in development practice

Ecology and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Walsh Dilley, Marygold ^a   Wolford, Wendy ^b   McCarthy, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Food sovereignty; Human rights; Resilience; Social justice

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; FOOD SECURITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; POWER RELATIONS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 84962763133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-07981-210111     Document Type: Article

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