Trading in Discursive Commodities: Biofuel Brokers’ Roles in Perpetuating the Jatropha Hype in Indonesia

Hypes about wonder crops raise critical questions about the actors and mechanisms that link optimistic narratives about the crops’ potentials to actual production in the field. Jatropha curcas has been such a wonder crop, with a wide discrepancy between plans and reality. While many studies focus on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacqueline Vel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-05-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/6/5/2802