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Nutrition and urban agriculture
Introduction: Urban agriculture and self-reliance
Urban agriculture and the metabolism of cities
Improving urban agriculture in Africa: a social perspective
Examples of urban agriculture in Asia
Small-scale agricultural production in urban areas in Poland
Community food production in cities of the developing nations Isabel Wade
Urban agriculture: the potential and limitations of an urban self-reliance strategy Pablo Gutman
Urban nutrition in the tropics: a call for increased attention to metropolitan population
in the developing world
Food aid as communal meals for the urban poor: the Comedor programme in Peru
Nutrition and chronic energy deficiency
Investigating the biological and social consequences of chronic nutritional energy deficiency
The present trend in infant-feeding practices in Saudi Arabia
Breast-feeding practice in Saudi Arabia
Programme on food, nutrition, biotechnology, and poverty