Property rights, food security and child growth: Dynamics of insecurity in the Kafue Flats of Zambia

Food Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 434-443

  Merten, Sonja ^a   Haller, Tobias ^b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Famine; Food security; Livelihoods; Property rights; Zambia

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; FAMINE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SECURITY; FOOD SUPPLY; NATURAL RESOURCE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; POWER RELATIONS; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RURAL AREA;

AFRICA; KAFUE FLATS; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZAMBIA;

EID: 49049094225     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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