Measuring household resilience to food insecurity: Application to palestinian households

Agricultural Survey Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 341-368

  Alinovi, Luca ^a   Mane, Erdgin ^a   Romano, Donato ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification and regression tree (CART); Food insecurity; Household resilience; Palestinian Public Perception Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871301060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470665480.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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