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Sumberg, J., Thompson, J., Woodhouse, P. (2014). Political Agronomy. In: Thompson, P., Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_143-2
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