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Food Sovereignty: Power, Gender, and the Right to Food

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  • Rajeev C Patel

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In an article that forms part of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, Raj Patel examines the concept of food sovereignty, which aims to address inequalities in power that characterize the global food system and fuel hunger and malnutrition.

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  • Rajeev C Patel, 2012. "Food Sovereignty: Power, Gender, and the Right to Food," PLOS Medicine, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(6), pages 1-4, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pmed00:1001223
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001223
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