Bringing home the right to food in Canada: Challenges and possibilities for achieving food security

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 566-573

  Rideout, Karen ^a   Riches, Graham ^a   Ostry, Aleck ^a   Buckingham, Don ^b   MacRae, Rod ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Food security; Human rights; Joined up food policy; Justiciability; Right to food

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD SECURITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN RIGHTS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTRUISM; CANADA; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NUTRITION POLICY; POLITICS; RELIEF WORK; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 34248381255     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007246622     Document Type: Article

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