Food Access Deficiencies in Sub-saharan Africa: Prevalence and Implications for Agricultural Interventions

Our understanding of food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been hampered by limitations in the temporal and spatial representativeness of data. Food balance sheets provide scalable estimates of per capita food availability, but fail to represent food access, stability and their causal linkag...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Main Authors:	Simon Fraval, James Hammond, Jessica R. Bogard, Mary Ng'endo, Jacob van Etten, Mario Herrero, Simon J. Oosting, Imke J. M. de Boer, Mats Lannerstad, Nils Teufel, Christine Lamanna, Todd S. Rosenstock, Tim Pagella, Bernard Vanlauwe, Paul M. Dontsop-Nguezet, David Baines, Pietro Carpena, Paulin Njingulula, Christopher Okafor, Jannike Wichern, Augustine Ayantunde, Caroline Bosire, Sabrina Chesterman, Esther Kihoro, Elizaphan J. O. Rao, Tom Skirrow, Jonathan Steinke, Clare M. Stirling, Viviane Yameogo, Mark T. van Wijk
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Subjects:	nutrition-sensitive crops livestock diet diversity farm systems rural development
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00104/full

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