Theorizing food insecurity: Building a livelihood vulnerability framework for researching food insecurity

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-37

  Yaro, Joseph Awetori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Entitlements; Food insecurity; Livelihood sustainability; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; FOOD SECURITY; RURAL ECONOMY; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 1942442875     PISSN: 00291951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00291950410004375     Document Type: Article

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