Combating Micronutrient Deficiencies: Food-Based Approaches

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 16
About the Editors......Page 18
Contributors......Page 20
Introduction......Page 34
1. Strategies for Preventing Multi-micronutrient Deficiencies: a Review of Experiences with Food-based Approaches in Developing Countries......Page 40
2. Addressing Micronutrient Malnutrition to Achieve Nutrition Security......Page 61
3. Agricultural Interventions and Nutrition: Lessons from the Past and New Evidence......Page 74
4. A 3-year Cohort Study to Assess the Impact of an Integrated Food- and Livelihood-based Model on Undernutrition in Rural Western Kenya......Page 109
5. Food-based, Low-cost Strategies to Combat Micronutrient Deficiencies: Evidence-based Interventions in Lesotho and Malawi......Page 125
6. Animal-source Foods as a Food-based Approach to Address Nutrient Deficiencies and Functional Outcomes: a Study among Kenyan Schoolchildren......Page 150
7. Small-animal Revolving Funds: an Innovative Programming Model to Increase Access to and Consumption of Animal-source Foods by Rural Households in Malawi......Page 170
8. Aquaculture’s Role in Improving Food and Nutrition Security......Page 183
9. A Home Gardening Approach Developed in South Africa to Address Vitamin A Deficiency......Page 196
10. AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center’s Approach to Alleviate Malnutrition......Page 216
11. Introducing Vegetables into the India Mid-day Meal (MDM) Programme: the Potential for Dietary Change......Page 231
12. Developing Micronutrient-rich Snacks for Pre-conception and Antenatal Health: the Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project (MMNP)......Page 247
13. Approaches and Lessons Learned for Promoting Dietary Improvement in Pohnpei, Micronesia......Page 257
14. A Food Systems Approach to Increase Dietary Zinc Intake in Bangladesh based on an Analysis of Diet, Rice Production and Processing......Page 287
15. Combating Iron Deflciency: Food-based Approaches......Page 301
16. Human Micronutrient Deficiencies: Linkages with Micronutrient Deficiencies in Soils, Crops and Animal Nutrition......Page 322
17. Nationwide Supplementation of Sodium Selenate to Commercial Fertilizers: History and 25-year Results from the Finnish Selenium Monitoring Programme......Page 345
18. Leaf Concentrate and Other Benefits of Leaf Fractionation......Page 371
19. Disability-adjusted Life Years (DALYs): a Methodology for Conducting Economic Studies of Food-based Interventions such as Biofortification......Page 399
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FAO’s Publications on Food-based Approaches to Prevent and Control Micronutrient Deficiencies......Page 432