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  • The Political Economy of Food and Finance

    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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    Series series Storey’s Guide to Raising
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  • Locally Laid

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  • Grass-Fed Cattle

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  • Boom, Bust, Boom

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  • Stolen Harvest

    The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

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    Series series Culture of the Land
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  • Agricultural Marketing

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    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
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  • Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People

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  • Economic and Environmental Policy Issues in Indian Textile and Apparel Industries

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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