Sustainability, food security, and development aid after the food crisis: Assessing aid strategies across donor contexts

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3354-3382

  Essex, Jamey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Food aid; Global food crisis; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867320845     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2113354     Document Type: Article

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