Combating micronutrient deficiencies : food-based approaches / / edited by Brian Thompson and Leslie Amoroso.

• Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
• TeilnehmendeR: Thompson, Brian, 1953-; Amoroso, Leslie, 1977-; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.; C.A.B. International.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxxii, 397 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Strategies for preventing multi-micronutrient deficiencies : a review of experiences with food-based approaches in developing countries / Rosalind S Gibson -- Addressing micronutrient malnutrition to achieve nutrition security / Prakash Shetty -- Agricultural interventions and nutrition : lessons from the past and new evidence / Mary Arimond ... [et al.] -- A 3 year cohort study to assess the impact of an integrated food-and livelihood-based model on undernutrition in rural western Kenya / Jessica Fanzo ... [et al.] -- Food-based, low-cost strategies to combat micronutrient deficiencies : evidence-based interventions in Lesotho and Malawi / Juliet M. Aphane, Nerisa Pilime, Naomi J. Saronga -- Animal source foods as a food-based approach to address nutrient deficiencies and functional outcomes : a study among Kenyan schoolchildren / Charlotte G. Neumann ... [et al.] -- Small animal revolving funds : an innovative programming model to increase access to and consumption of animal source foods by rural households in Malawi / A. Carolyn MacDonald ... [et al.] --

Aquaculture's role in improving food and nutrition security / Brian Thompson, Rohana Subasinghe -- A home gardening approach developed in South Africa to address vitamin A deficiency / Mieke Faber, Sunette Laurie -- AVRDC : the World Vegetable Center's approach to alleviate malnutrition / Madan L Chadha ... [et al.] -- Introducing vegetables into the India Mid-Day Meal Programme (MDM) : the potential for dietary change / Ellen Muehlhoff ... [et al.] -- Developing micronutrient-rich snacks for pre-conception and antenatal health : the Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project (MMNP) / Devi Shivashankaran ... [et al.] -- Approaches and lessons learned for promoting dietary improvement in Pohnpei, Micronesia / Lois Englberger ... [et al.] -- A food systems approach to increase dietary zinc intake in Bangladesh based on an analysis of diet, rice production and processing / Anne-Marie B. Mayer ... [et al.] -- Combating iron deficiency : food-based approaches / Brian Thompson -- Human micronutrient deficiencies : linkages with micronutrient deficiencies in soils, crops and animal nutrition / Maarten Nube, Roelf L Voortman -- Nationwide supplementation of sodium selenate to commercial fertilizers : history and 20-year results from the Finnish selenium monitoring programme / Georg Alfthan ... [et al.] -- Leaf concentrate and other benefits of leaf fractionation / M. N. Glyn Davys ... [et al.] -- Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYS) : a methodology for conducting economic studies of food-based interventions such as biofortification / Salomon Perez Sussrez.