From food insufficiency towards trade dependency: A historical analysis of global food availability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Porkka, Miina ^a   Kummu, Matti ^a   Siebert, Stefan ^b   Varis, Olli ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CHINA; DYNAMICS; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY YIELD; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD IMPORT; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SECURITY; FOOD SELF SUFFICIENCY; FOOD TRADE; GLOBAL FOOD AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; INCOME; NONHUMAN; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TREND STUDY;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CHINA; FOOD SUPPLY; LATIN AMERICA; POPULATION;

EID: 84893205891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082714     Document Type: Article

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