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  1. Human Rights and the Right to Food, Leiden University, Lange Voorhout 44, Leiden, Netherlands

    Irene Hadiprayitno

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Hadiprayitno, I. (2014). Food Security. In: Thompson, P.B., Kaplan, D.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0929-4_270

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