The interplay between household food security and wellbeing among small-scale farmers in the context of rapid agrarian change in India

Agriculture and Food Security

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Patel, Kirit ^a   Gartaula, Hom ^a,b   Johnson, Derek ^b   Karthikeyan, M ^c  

^a Canadian Mennonite University   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c DHAN Foundation   (India)

Author keywords

Agrarian change; Food security; Food sovereignty; India; Social wellbeing; Tamil Nadu

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006051784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20487010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40066-015-0036-2     Document Type: Article

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