First Report on the World Nutrition Situation


Book Description

Includes statistics.




Infant and Child Nutrition Worldwide


Book Description

This volume provides a contemporary and historical overview of infant nutrition in Europe, North America, and the Third World. It emphasizes the important role that good nutrition, appropriate health care, and a caring environment play in promoting healthy physical and social growth in children. Issues covered include breast feeding, maternal undernutrition and reproductive performance, weaning, and the social and pyschological factors of breast feeding. The book will serve as an excellent guide for nutritionists, pediatricians, health professionals and others involved in child welfare worldwide.




Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation


Book Description

Describes trends in nutrition and related indicators from 1975 to the most recent year available, usually 1990. The focus is on nutrition in developing countries, and stress is placed on malnutrition as it affects young children. Volume I presents trends and possible causal factors at the regional level; summarizes recent information on the major deficiencies; assembles information on what is known about malnutrition in women in developing countries; discusses the role of diet in causing chronic disease, particularly in countries in transition; explores how trends in the last 15 years, if projected into the future, compare with goals for improved nutrition in the 1990s; contains an outline of methods, data sources, bibliographic references, and other details. Volume II provides more detailed information at a country level.




The Hunger Report 1993


Book Description

"The Hunger Report: 1993" is the fifth in a series by the Brown University World Hunger Program. Drawing on numerous reports of hunger researchers, monitors, and policy makers, it classifies and clarifies their diverse data within a single typology of hunger caused by food shortage, food poverty, and food deprivation. Policy makers, academicians, and practitioners concerned with hunger and development will find this book an invaluable resource. In the year 1993, hunger was definitely on the international development agenda. The world has witnessed with mounting concern the needless persistence of hunger and, along with it, a proliferation of often-conflicting supporting data, a multiplication of often-conflicting institutional efforts, an escalation in political rhetoric, and an overall increase in media and public attention.




Poverty and Undernutrition


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According to research, almost one billion people suffer from undernutrition in developing countries. This book provides a detailed study of undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa, one of the worst affected areas.




An Inquiry Into Well-being and Destitution


Book Description

An interdisciplinary book by one of the most respected scholars in what is broadly development economics but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophical research and empirical work on resource allocation, nutrition science, and anthropology. It has been widely recognized as aseminal work presenting a wide-ranging description of the causes and remedies of poverty and undernourishment, and addressing the current debate over methods of estimating their incidence.




Update on the Nutrition Situation


Book Description

This report describes recent trends in nutrition and certain potential determining factors, country-by-country. This information is intended for policymakers and program planners in governments and international organizations to demonstrate that nutritional status responds to public policy and that human suffering from economic recession is real, measurable and preventable.