Inadequate feeding practices and impaired growth among children from subsistence farming households in Sidama, Southern Ethiopia
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عنوان ژورنال: Maternal & Child Nutrition
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1740-8695,1740-8709
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2008.00179.x