Food, the State, and International Political Economy: Dilemmas of Developing CountriesFocuses on three political economy themes: developing countries' food policies; the international political economy of food and agriculture (trade relations, foreign food aid, agribusiness); and what mixture of capital-intensive and labour-intensive techniques to use. |
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