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Beyond Industrial Agriculture? Some Questions about Farm Size, Productivity and Sustainability

  1. PHILIP WOODHOUSE*

Article first published online: 21 JUN 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2010.00278.x

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Journal of Agrarian Change

Journal of Agrarian Change

Special Issue: Productive Forces in Capitalist Agriculture: Political Economy and Political Ecology

Volume 10, Issue 3, pages 437–453, July 2010

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WOODHOUSE, P. (2010), Beyond Industrial Agriculture? Some Questions about Farm Size, Productivity and Sustainability. Journal of Agrarian Change, 10: 437–453. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2010.00278.x

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  1. Institute for Development Policy and Management, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK

*Philip Woodhouse, Institute for Development Policy and Management, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. E-mail: phil.woodhouse@manchester.ac.uk

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