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FAO - Nutrition country profiles: Brazil

Year of publication 2000

Pages 38 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Category Other document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The diversification of food patterns in Brazil is strongly related to differences in access to food and food habit. Except for the Amazon region and the arid northeast area of Sertão, no large differences in terms of agroecological characteristics or agricultural production throughout the country exist. This implies that the main food items, which provide most of the dietary energy supply, are similar from one region to another.

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