Which aid initiatives strengthen food security? Lessons from Uttar Pradesh

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African yam beans (Sphenostylis stenocarpa): A review of a novel tropical food plant for human nutrition, health and food security

“…Food insecurity and malnutrition is a serious problem in Nigeria, despite all the efforts to combat them. Global nutrition survey displayed that the most dietary inadequacies are protein of high biological value (Chikwendu et al, 2014;Petrikova and Hudson 2017). This is because animal food which are rich sources of protein are very expensive and beyond the rich of majority of the population (Morales, 2011;Godfray et al, 2010).…”