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Titolo: | Improving diets and nutrition : food-based approaches / / edited by Brian Thompson, Leslie Amoroso ; contributors Marina Adrianopol [and sixty one others] |
Pubblicazione: | Wallingford, England ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : CABI, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (453 p.) |
Disciplina: | 613.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Malnutrition |
Malnutrition - Social aspects | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | ThompsonBrian <1953-> |
AmorosoLeslie <1977-> | |
AdrianopolMarina | |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; About the Editors; Contributor Biographies; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Welcome Address; Opening Address; Introduction; PART I: OVERVIEW; 1 Perspective on Nutritional Problems in Developing Countries: Nutrition Security through Community Agriculture; 2 Food Systems and Human Nutrition: Relationships and Policy Interventions; PART II: POLICY AND PROGRAMME EXPERIENCES |
3 Enhancing the Performance of Food-based Strategies to Improve Micronutrient Status and Associated Health Outcomes in Young Children from Poor-resource Households in Low-income Countries: Challenges and Solutions4 Food-based Approaches for Combating Malnutrition - Lessons Lost?; 5 Critical Issues to Consider in the Selection of Crops in a Food-based Approach to Improve Vitamin A Status - Based on a South African Experience | |
6 Contribution of Homestead Food Production to Improved Household Food Security and Nutrition Status - Lessons Learned from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and the Philippines7 The Underestimated Impact of Food-based Interventions; 8 The Current Nutritional Status in China; 9 Integrating Nutrition into Agricultural and Rural Development Policies: The Brazilian Experience of Building an Innovative Food and Nutrition Security Approach; 10 The Gender Informed Nutrition and Agriculture (GINA) Alliance and the Nutrition Collaborative Research Support Program (NCRSP) | |
11 Guyana's Hinterland Community-based School Feeding Program (SFP)12 The Impact of School Food Standards on Children's Eating Habits in England; 13 Animal Source Foods as a Food-based Approach to Improve Diet and Nutrition Outcomes; 14 Adapting Food-based Strategies to Improve the Nutrition of the Landless: A Review of HKI's Homestead Food Production Program in Bangladesh; 15 The Growing Connection Project - With a Mexico Case Study; 16 Biofortification: A New Tool to Reduce Micronutrient Malnutrition | |
17 Medium-scale Fortification: A Sustainable Food-based Approach to Improve Diets and Raise Nutrition Levels18 Optimized Feeding Recommendations and In-home Fortification to Improve Iron Status in Infants and Young Children in the Republic of Tajikistan: A Pilot Project; 19 Towards Long-term Nutrition Security: The Role of Agriculture in Dietary Diversity; 20 Building Nutritional Self-reliance; PART III: CONTRIBUTIONS OF FAO DEPARTMENTS AND DIVISIONS; 21 Measurement of Dietary Diversity for Monitoring the Impact of Food-based Approaches | |
22 Nutrition Education and Food Security Interventions to Improve Complementary Feeding in Cambodia | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Nutrition-sensitive, food-based approaches towards hunger and malnutrition are effective, sustainable and long-term solutions. This book discusses the policy, strategic, methodological, technical and programmatic issues associated with such approaches, proposes ""best practices"" for the design, targeting, implementation and evaluation of specific nutrition-sensitive, food-based interventions and for improved methodologies for evaluating their efficacy and cost-effectiveness, and provides practical lessons for advancing nutrition-sensitive food-based approaches for improving nutrition at polic |
Titolo autorizzato: | Improving diets and nutrition |
ISBN: | 1-78924-411-0 |
1-78064-380-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910626102903321 |
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