“The right to food has to become the right to good food”

Source: S., Bala Ravi, I., I. Hoeschle-Zeledon, I., Swaminathan, M.S., Frison, E. (eds.), Hunger and poverty: the role of biodiversity, http://books.google.com/books?id=zKkd79GWbBoC&pg=PA69, Bioversity International, 978-92-9043-703-1, 69–

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