Guide to readers This paper is organized into 3 main sections: An introductory section provides a history and context for this study. In the first section, a common language or conceptual framework is developed to relate agriculture and food security issues using existing models and frameworks from the literature. The Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach is used as the carrier framework wherei...

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1 State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, 2 The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, 3 Key Laboratory of Development of Veterinary Diagnostic Products of Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, 4 Hube...

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