Measuring nutritional diversity of national food supplies

Global Food Security

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 174-182

  Remans, Roseline ^a,b   Wood, Stephen A ^a   Saha, Nilanjana ^a   Anderman, Tal Lee ^c   DeFries, Ruth S ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

^c ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Food production; Food supply; Metrics; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919876304     PISSN: 22119124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2014.07.001     Document Type: Review

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