"Living from Day to Day": Food Insecurity, Complexity, and Coping in Mutare, Zimbabwe

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-113

  Gwatirisa, Pauline ^a   Manderson, Lenore ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

drought; government policy; HIV AIDS; inflation; land reform; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DROUGHT; FOOD SECURITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFLATION; LAND REFORM; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CITY; DIET; DROUGHT; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUNGER; INCOME; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL STRESS; POLICY; POLITICS; POVERTY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SURVIVAL; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE; ZIMBABWE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CITIES; DIET; DROUGHTS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; GLOBAL WARMING; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; HUNGER; INCOME; MALNUTRITION; POLITICS; POVERTY; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL CHANGE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE; ZIMBABWE;

MANICALAND; MUTARE; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84859571584     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: 15435237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2012.661328     Document Type: Article

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