Food security and sustainable livelihoods: The policy challenge

Development (Basingstoke)

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 24-28

  Thomson, Anne M ^a  

^a Oxford Policy Management   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access to food; Assets approach; Household food insecurity; Livelihood strategies: policy making; Poverty; PRSPs

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; POVERTY ALLEVIATION;

EID: 0034762245     PISSN: 10116370     EISSN: 02122448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.development.1110287     Document Type: Article

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