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Food-based nutrition strategies in Bangladesh

Experience of integrated horticulture and nutrition development

Year of publication 2007

Pages 79

Author Bhattacharjee, L.; Saha, S.K.; Nandi, B.K.;Agriculture Group

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title RAP Publication

Series number 1020-6221|1014-2789|18194591|0428-9560

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Food-based intervention strategies to improve nutritional standards of rural communities in the developing world play a key role in poverty reduction efforts. The nutritional level of a community is an important indicator of its socio-economic status and, accordingly, nutrition and food-based interventions have high priority in development programmes and projects. The United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000 and the UN Millennium Development Goals too have made food and nutrition a cornerst one of development. Horticulture-based food such as fruits, vegetables and nuts is important for the daily diet, providing essential micronutrients, fibre, vegetable proteins and other bio-functional components. FAO is implementing horticulture-based field operations and normative activities including field projects to improve household food security and nutritional levels in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. In collaboration with the People’s Republic of Bangladesh , the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific undertook an initiative to promote horticultural food. This report is an account of the nutrition component of the five-year integrated horticulture and nutrition development project which commenced in 2001. It documents the lessons learned in using horticulture-based nutrition development strategies to improve food security and nutritional standards in Bangladesh.

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