Measuring Poverty for Food Security Analysis
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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: Food and Nutrition Bulletin
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0379-5721,1564-8265
DOI: 10.1177/0379572116653509