Assessing food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean using FAO’s Food Insecurity Experience Scale
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.07.005
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Keywords
Food security; Food access; Food Insecurity Experience Scale; Poverty; Latin America; Caribbean;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F68 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Policy
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
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