Food Insecurity, Hunger, and Undernutrition

Present Knowledge in Nutrition: Tenth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1165-1181

  Pelletier, David L ^a   Olson, Christine M ^a   Frongillo, Edward A ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food insecurity and hunger in poor countries; Food insecurity, hunger, and undernutrition; Food security, at global, regional, national, provincial, household; Old and new labels, and ranges of food security; Simplified framework for food security, global and national; Undernourishment, prevalence in developing countries; Undernutrition, pervasive effects on human performance; Undernutrition, poverty related, affecting the world's population; UNICEF conceptual framework for causes of malnutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886958494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119946045.ch68     Document Type: Chapter

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