Poverty, Food Intake, and Malnutrition: Implications for Food Security in Developing Countries
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Poverty, food intake, and malnutrition: implications for food security in developing countries.
The relation between household income, food intake, and nutritional status in less developed countries is examined, and a framework that explicitly relates household behavior patterns with public policy options designed to improve the nutritional status of the rural and urban poor is presented. For rural areas, nutritional and health status depends largely upon the levels of private inputs pro...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0002-9092,1467-8276
DOI: 10.2307/1242554