Nutrition Policy Implementation: Issues and Experience

ISBN-13: 9781468440935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 572 str.

Nevin S. Scrimshaw; Mitchel B. Wallerstein

Opis

The MIT International Nutrition Planning Program (INP) was initiated in the fall of 1972 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, later supplemented by funds from USAID under the 2110 Program. Con ceived as a multidisciplinary undertaking, the INP was a joint effort of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science and the Center for Inter national Studies at MIT that also included representatives of the Depart ments of Economics, Political Science, Urban Studies, Humanities (Anthropology), and Civil Engineering. It has been successful in attract ing graduate students and conducting research on various international food and nutrition problems, including the design of intervention pro grams. A condition of the original grant from the Rockefeller Foundation was the organization of a meeting to summarize and evaluate the prog ress of the program. It was ultimately decided that the best approach would be a workshop that would attempt to assess what had been learned about the implementation of food and nutrition policies since the start of the INP. Out of concern for food and nutrition policy issues, the World Hunger Programme of The United Nations University (UNU) and the Ford Foundation also agreed to cosponsor the workshop."

Spis treści

I • The Rationale for Investment in Nutrition.- 1 • Nutrition and Work Performance.- 2 • The Impact of Malnutrition on Behavior.- 3 • Malnutrition and Infection.- II • Food Fortification.- 4 • Food Fortification.- 5 • The Program of Fortification of Sugar with Vitamin A in Guatemala: Some Factors Bearing on Its Implementation and Maintenance.- 6 • Prevention of Iron Deficiency.- III • Supplementary Feeding and Formulated Foods.- 7 • Programs of Supplemental Feeding and Weaning Food Development.- 8 • Food Aid for Supplementary Feeding: A Case Study from Egypt.- 9 • The Nutri-Pak: Experience with an Indigenous Supplementary Feeding Intervention in the Philippines.- 10 • Supplementary Nutrition: A Case Study from India.- 11 • Supplementary Feeding and Formulated Foods: Some Comments.- IV • Integrated, Multisectoral Village-Level Interventions.- 12 • Integrated Multisectoral Interventions at the Village Level.- 13 • Development from Below: Transformation of Village-Based Nutrition Projects to a National Family Nutrition Program in Indonesia.- 14 • Integrated Multisectoral Nutrition Intervention at the Community Level: The Colombian Experience.- 15 • Interface Problems between Nutrition Policy and Its Implementation: The Philippine Case Study.- V • Small-Farm Agricultural Systems.- 16 • Some Issues in Expanding Small-Farm Agricultural Production.- 17 • A Regional Approach to Agricultural Development and Its Potential Insights for Nutrition Planning.- 18 • Nigeria’s Experience with Programs Aimed at Expanding Small-Farm Agricultural Production.- VI • Post-Harvest Food Conservation.- 19 • Post-harvest Food Losses in Developing Countries: A Survey 337.- 20 • Who Is the Loser in Post-harvest Losses?.- 21 • Problems in the Post-harvest Processing of Rice in Southeast Asian Countries.- VII • Food Price Controls And Consumer Subsidies.- 22 • Food Prices As A Nutrition Policy Instrument.- 23 • Consumer Food Price Subsidies In Pakistan.- 24 • Food Subsidies In Egypt.- 25 • Strategies And Mechanisms For Urban And Rural Subsidization: The Case Of Conasupo.- VIII • Nutrition Policy Implementation.- Concluding Afterthoughts.- Alan Berg.- Merrill S. Read.- Badri N. Tandon.- Michael Lipton.- Mitchel B. Wallerstein and Nevin S. Scrimshaw.- Participants.