Food security: its components and challenges
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منابع مشابه
Analysis of Challenges to Food Security and Its Recommended Strategies
Food security is a global challenge embedding complexities including social, economic and environmental fronts. Food security has to be achieved on the quantitative and qualitative level reflected by food availability, food access, food use and their stability. As a result, food security is overlapped to agricultural systems including food production, processing, distribution, retails, delivery...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1479-3911,1479-392X
DOI: 10.1504/ijfsnph.2011.042571