Food insecurity and household food supplies in rural Ecuador

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricion

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Hackett, Michelle ^a   Zubieta, Ana Claudia ^a   Hernandez, Kattya ^a   Melgar Quiñonez, Hugo ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecuador; Food security; Food supply; Rasch model

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; ECUADOR; FAMILY SIZE; HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ECUADOR; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 35848952315     PISSN: 00040622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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