Food Futures: Developing effective food systems interventions to improve public health nutrition

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 160, Issue , 2018, Pages 124-131

  Waterlander, Wilma E ^a   Ni Mhurchu, Cliona ^a   Eyles, Helen ^a   Vandevijvere, Stefanie ^a   Cleghorn, Christine ^b   Scarborough, Peter ^c   Swinburn, Boyd ^a   Seidell, Jaap ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Food policy; Food system; Public health nutrition; Sustainability; Value chain analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; COMPLEXITY; DIET; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD POLICY; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LOGISTICS; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SUSTAINABILITY; VALUATION;

EID: 85009739468     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2017.01.006     Document Type: Article

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