The State of Agri-Food Systems and Agri-Food Value Chains in 2020
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Abstract One might reasonably invoke Dickens in describing AFSs and AVCs today: “it was the best of times, it worst times.”
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sustainable development goals series
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2523-3084', '2523-3092']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88802-2_2