Abbreviated Measures of Food Sufficiency Validly Estimate the Food Security Level of Poor Households: Measuring Household Food Security
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Measuring Nutritional Dimensions of Household Food Security
Funding for data collection and analysis of these data has been supported by the 1 International Fund for Agricultural Development (TA Grant No. 301-IFPRI). We gratefully acknowledge this funding, but stress that ideas and opinions presented here are our responsibility and should, in no way, be attributed to IFAD.
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nutrition
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0022-3166,1541-6100
DOI: 10.1093/jn/129.3.687