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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II