Feeding the world healthily: The challenge of measuring the effects of agriculture on health

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1554, 2010, Pages 3083-3097

  Hawkesworth, Sophie ^a,b   Dangour, Alan D ^a,b   Johnston, Deborah ^b,c   Lock, Karen ^a,b   Poole, Nigel ^b,c   Rushton, Jonathan ^b,d   Uauy, Ricardo ^a,b   Waage, Jeff ^b,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b London International Development Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Food consumption; Food policy; Health; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; DATA SET; DIET; FEEDING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POLICY; FOOD SECURITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC HEALTH;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77957298987     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0122     Document Type: Article

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