Water-Food-Nutrition-Health Nexus: Linking water to improving food, nutrition and health in Sub-Saharan Africa

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe ^a   Chibarabada, Tendai ^a   Modi, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Agrobiodiversity; Food and nutrition security; Nutritional water productivity; Water food nutrition health nexus

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD SECURITY; NUTRITION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; WATER USE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CROP WATER USE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD SECURITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLANT WATER USE; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL WATER CONTENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WATER PRODUCTIVITY; WELLBEING; CATERING SERVICE; DIET; HUMAN; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER SUPPLY;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DIET; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RURAL POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84953725127     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph13010107     Document Type: Review

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