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9 - India: Compliance with Orders on the Right to Food

from Part II - Case Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2017

Malcolm Langford
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
César Rodríguez-Garavito
Affiliation:
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Julieta Rossi
Affiliation:
National University of Lanús, Argentina
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