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Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform
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Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
EUR21,50

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-935028-28-7
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum15.11.2006
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 155 mm, Höhe 227 mm, Dicke 24 mm
Gewicht630 g
Artikel-Nr.12181252
KatalogLibri
Datenquelle-Nr.A4278719
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Peter M. Rosset is a researcher at the Center for the Study of Rural Change in Mexico (CECCAM) where he is co-coordinator of the Land Research Action Network. He is also an associate of the Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA), and visiting scholar at the University of California, both in Berkeley. He is the former executive director and co-director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) in Oakland, California. Peter is author of Food Is Different: Why we must get the WTO out of Agriculture.

Raj Patel is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, and is author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System (Portobello Books and HarperCollins, 2007).

Michael Courville is an independent writer and researcher in political economy. His work explores the limits of national development and the impact of those limits on resource distribution and human well being. He holds both an MA in International and Area Studies and a master's in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley.

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