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Nutrition policy implementation : issues and experience

By: Scrimshaw, Nevin S.
Contributor(s): Wallerstein, Mitchel B.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York 1982; Plenum Press Description: xiv, 558 p. 24 cm.ISBN: 0306408589.Subject(s): FOOD PRICES | POST-HARVEST LOSSES | SMALL FARMS | MALNUTRITION | NUTRITION PROGRAMMES | NUTRITION POLICY
Contents:
I . THE RATIONALE FOR INVESTMENT IN NUTRITION Nutrition and Work Performance --- F. E. Viteri Comment ---- Harry L. Jacobs discussion The Impact of Malnutrition on Behavior --- Josef Brozek Comment --- Ernesto POLLITT discussion Malnutrition and Infection --- R. K. Chandra Comment --- Gerald Keusch Discussion
II . FOOD FORTIFICATION Food Fortification --- Stanley N. Gershoff Comment --- F. E. Viteri The Program of Fortification of Sugar with Vitamin A in Guatemala: Some Factors Bearing on Its implementation and Maintenance --- Guillermo Arroyave Prevention of Iron Deficiency --- Miguel Layrisse Discussion
Ill , SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING AND FORMULATED FOODS Programs of Supplemental Feeding and Weaning Food Development --- Nevin S. Scrimshaw Comment --- Alberto Carvalho da Silva Food Aid for Supplementary Feeding: A Case Study from Egypt --- Stephen R. Allen and Andrew J. Koval The Nutri-Pak: Experience with an Indigenous Supplementary Feeding Intervention in the Philippines --- George H. Ropes Supplementary Nutrition: A Case Study from India --- Badri Tandon Supplementary Feeding and Formulated Foods: Some Comments ---Ricardo Bressani Comment --- Gretchen Berggren Comment --- Hossein Ghassemi Discussion
INTEGRATED, MULTISECTORAL VILLAGE-LEVEL INTERVENTIONS Integrated Multisectoral Interventions at the Village Level --- Bruce F. Johnston Development from Below: Transformation of Village- Based Nutrition Projects to a National Family Nutrition Program in Indonesia --- Jon E. Rohde and Lukas Hendrata Integrated Multisectoral Nutrition Intervention at the "ommunity Level: The Colombian Experience --- Luis Fajardo Comment --- Ricardo L. Sanchez Interface Problems between Nutrition Policy and Its Implementation: The Philippine Case Study --- R. Florentino, C. Adorna, and F. Solon Comment --- Warren Berggren Comment --- John O. Field Discussion
V. SMALL-FARM AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS. Some Issues in Expanding Small-Farm Agricultural Production --- Solon Barraclough V Regional Approach to Agricultural Development and Its Potential Insights for Nutrition Planning --- Donald R. Fiester Nigeria's Experience with Programs Aimed at expanding Small-Farm Agricultural Production --- Bede N. Okigbo Comment --- Michael Lipton Discussion
VI. POST-HARVEST FOOD CONSERVATION. Post-harvest Food Losses in Developing Countries: A survey --- E. R. Pariser Who Is the Loser in Post-harvest Losses? --- Hans Guggenheim Problems in the Post-harvest Processing of Rice in Southeast Asian Countries --- Yasumasa Koga Comment --- H. A. B. Parpia Comment --- Pierre Spitz Comment --- Hans Guggenheim Comment --- Michael Lipton Comment --- Ricardo Bressani Discussion
VII. FOOD PRICE CONTROLS AND CONSUMER SUBSIDIES . Food Prices as a Nutrition Policy Instrument --- C. Peter Timmer Consumer Food Price Subsidies in Pakistan --- Beatrice Lorge Rogers Food Subsidies in Egypt --- Lance Taylor Strategies and Mechanisms for Urban and Rural Subsidization: The Case of conasupo --- James E. Austin Comment --- Alberto Carvalho da Silva Comment ---- James Gavan Discussion
VIII . NUTRITION POLICY IMPLEMENTATION Final Discussion Summary Comments --- Sol H. Chafkin
CONCLUDING AFTERTHOUGHTS.. Alan Berg Merrill S. Read Badri N. Tandon Michael Lipton Mitchel B. Wallerstein and Nevin S. Scrimshaw
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UNU B21684

  • In 1977 the UNU signed an agreement of association with a consortium consisting of the MIT-INP and the Center for International Health of the Harvard School of Public Health.

I . THE RATIONALE FOR INVESTMENT IN NUTRITION Nutrition and Work Performance --- F. E. Viteri
Comment ---- Harry L. Jacobs
discussion The Impact of Malnutrition on Behavior --- Josef Brozek
Comment --- Ernesto POLLITT
discussion Malnutrition and Infection --- R. K. Chandra
Comment --- Gerald Keusch
Discussion

II . FOOD FORTIFICATION Food Fortification --- Stanley N. Gershoff
Comment --- F. E. Viteri The Program of Fortification of Sugar with Vitamin A in Guatemala: Some Factors Bearing on Its implementation and Maintenance --- Guillermo Arroyave Prevention of Iron Deficiency --- Miguel Layrisse
Discussion

Ill , SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING AND FORMULATED FOODS Programs of Supplemental Feeding and Weaning Food Development --- Nevin S. Scrimshaw
Comment --- Alberto Carvalho da Silva Food Aid for Supplementary Feeding: A Case Study from Egypt --- Stephen R. Allen and Andrew J. Koval The Nutri-Pak: Experience with an Indigenous Supplementary Feeding Intervention in the Philippines --- George H. Ropes Supplementary Nutrition: A Case Study from India --- Badri Tandon Supplementary Feeding and Formulated Foods: Some Comments ---Ricardo Bressani
Comment --- Gretchen Berggren
Comment --- Hossein Ghassemi
Discussion

INTEGRATED, MULTISECTORAL VILLAGE-LEVEL INTERVENTIONS Integrated Multisectoral Interventions at the Village Level --- Bruce F. Johnston Development from Below: Transformation of Village- Based Nutrition Projects to a National Family Nutrition Program in Indonesia --- Jon E. Rohde and Lukas Hendrata Integrated Multisectoral Nutrition Intervention at the "ommunity Level: The Colombian Experience --- Luis Fajardo
Comment --- Ricardo L. Sanchez Interface Problems between Nutrition Policy and Its Implementation: The Philippine Case Study --- R. Florentino, C. Adorna, and F. Solon
Comment --- Warren Berggren
Comment --- John O. Field
Discussion

V. SMALL-FARM AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS. Some Issues in Expanding Small-Farm Agricultural Production --- Solon Barraclough V Regional Approach to Agricultural Development and Its Potential Insights for Nutrition Planning --- Donald R. Fiester Nigeria's Experience with Programs Aimed at expanding Small-Farm Agricultural Production --- Bede N. Okigbo
Comment --- Michael Lipton
Discussion

VI. POST-HARVEST FOOD CONSERVATION. Post-harvest Food Losses in Developing Countries: A survey --- E. R. Pariser Who Is the Loser in Post-harvest Losses? --- Hans Guggenheim Problems in the Post-harvest Processing of Rice in Southeast Asian Countries --- Yasumasa Koga
Comment --- H. A. B. Parpia
Comment --- Pierre Spitz
Comment --- Hans Guggenheim
Comment --- Michael Lipton
Comment --- Ricardo Bressani
Discussion

VII. FOOD PRICE CONTROLS AND CONSUMER SUBSIDIES . Food Prices as a Nutrition Policy Instrument --- C. Peter Timmer Consumer Food Price Subsidies in Pakistan --- Beatrice Lorge Rogers Food Subsidies in Egypt --- Lance Taylor Strategies and Mechanisms for Urban and Rural Subsidization: The Case of conasupo --- James E. Austin
Comment --- Alberto Carvalho da Silva
Comment ---- James Gavan
Discussion

VIII . NUTRITION POLICY IMPLEMENTATION Final Discussion Summary Comments --- Sol H. Chafkin

CONCLUDING AFTERTHOUGHTS.. Alan Berg Merrill S. Read Badri N. Tandon Michael Lipton Mitchel B. Wallerstein and Nevin S. Scrimshaw

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