Guidelines and Guidance Developing a Sustainable Nutrition Research Agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa—Findings from the SUNRAY Project
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1 Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2 Unit of Nutrition and Child Health, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 3 Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin, 4 Public Health Section, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 5 Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 6 Department of Food Science and Technology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7 Faculty of Medicine & Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium, 8 Department of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Developing a Sustainable Nutrition Research Agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa—Findings from the SUNRAY Project
1 Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2 Unit of Nutrition and Child Health, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 3 Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin, 4 Public Health Section, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 5 Africa...
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