Food security for an aging and heavier population

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2018, Pages

  Vásquez, Felipe ^a   Vita, Gibran ^a   Müller, Daniel B ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biodemography; Demographically extended food assessment; Dynamic population modeling; Food security; Heterogeneous food demand; Mixed methods; Short term human evolution; Type cohort time data

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AGING POPULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SECURITY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING;

AFRICA; ASIA;

EID: 85054993933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10103683     Document Type: Article

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