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Selecting Interventions for Nutritional Improvement: A Manual

Year of publication 1983

Pages 85

Author Nutrition Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 9251014027

Series title Nutrition in Agriculture

Series number 0257-8476

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Over the last 30 years vast efforts have been made by governments, bilateral and international organizations, and non-governmental and voluntary groups to fight hunger and malnutrition. The dedication and energy of doctors, agriculturists, teachers, community leaders and volunteers trying to improve the living conditions of their people or assist them in their own efforts are impressive. In spite of this, malnutrition remains one of the world's most important problems. The FAO Food Policy and Nutrition Division has found that an efficient way to combat malnutrition is to introduce nutritional considerations into agricultural and rural development planning. We have recently published a manual which proposes and describes the appropriate methodology, Nutrition in Agriculture Series No. 1, "Integrating nutrition into agricultrual and rural development projects". It offers to nutritionists, food economists and agricultual planners a logical, step-by-step approach to the inclusion of nutritional objectives in the overall economic development purposes of agricultural and rural development projects.

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