Developing a Sustainable Nutrition Research Agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa—Findings from the SUNRAY Project

Patrick Kolsteren and colleagues present the findings of a collaborative effort by stakeholders in sub-Saharan Africa to identify priorities for nutrition research. They propose a new approach that stimulates demand from policy makers for research and holds them accountable for incorporating research into policy and practice. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2014-01-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001593PMID 24492348PMCID 3904839
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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