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Influencing food environments for healthy diets. Summary

Year of publication 2016

Pages 36 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract)

This is a summary of the Report.

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives.

Language English

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