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Protecting small farmers and the rural poor in the context of globalization

Year of publication 2001

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 28

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The objective of this paper is to try to identify the organizational and operational features of the world economy that maintain, replicate, produce and sometimes even heighten the situation of extreme poverty and undernutrition. A brief analysis on how the present state of food is untenable and the possible reasons for such a situation.

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