Vulnerability and adaptation to food insecurity and poverty in Kenya

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-20

  Oluoko Odingo, Alice Atieno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; CORRELATION; FAMINE; FOOD SECURITY; FOOD SUPPLY; HUNGER; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POVERTY; VULNERABILITY;

KENYA;

EID: 78751604502     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2010.532739     Document Type: Article

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