The food environment, its effects on dietary consumption, and potential for measurement within agriculture-nutrition interventions

Food Security

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 505-520

  Herforth, Anna ^a   Ahmed, Selena ^b  

^a SPRING Project   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture nutrition; Dietary consumption; Food access; Food environment; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

DIET; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD MARKET; FOOD SECURITY; FUTURE PROSPECT;

EID: 84930086033     PISSN: 18764517     EISSN: 18764525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-015-0455-8     Document Type: Article

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