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PUBLIC HEALTH

Public health:

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Food security

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Pick of the crop AlertNet Reuter Foundation's news and communications service for the emergency relief community. Check the section on Food security for the latest Reuters stories and press releases from leading relief agencies. The State of the World's Children From UNICEF, this important annual report is available in plain text or Acrobat versions. it has a special focus on nutrition and malnutrition and has many inter-country comparisons.

Amaranth to Zaiholes:: ideas for growing Food Under Difficult Conditions"

Plain text of book for health and aid workers on how to produce food in difficult circumstances "This is a book of practical ideas. It is written for people who help those who live and make their living under difficult conditions in the tropics and subtropics. What should a development worker do to assist a community?"

CIA Fact Book

Useful if you want the latest information on a country whose situation you are not familiar with.

The Disaster Handbook

Text from University of Florida (intended for national use) on all aspects of surviving a disaster (especially a natural disaster), from a `user's' perspective.Acrobat format

Famine Early Warning System (FEWS): USAID

Publications, bulletins and other reports on both climate and food security aspects of famine from this resource of the US Agency for International Development . There is a Youth Page and currently quite a lot of information on the situation in Africa.

 

FAO: Human Nutrition in the Developing World

Provides information about food, nutrients, the causes of malnutrition, nutritional disorders and their prevention.

FAO: Improving Nutrition Through Home Gardening: A Training Package For Preparing Field Workers in Southeast Asia

Contains course materials and technical notes for trainers and participants, and home garden technology and nutrition informati

Food Outlook (FAO)

Newsletter providing "Global Information and Early Warning System" from FAO with statistics and reports on food and crop situation worldwide.

FAO: Food and Nutrition publications

Plain text listing of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) publications on food, (particularly food security type reports) with citation, but no content on-line.

 

Food efficiency

Argument together with data and comparative graph of the efficiency of various foods as energy sources based on the amount of land needed to produce them.

Food Security II

"A cooperative agreement between US Agency for International Development, Global Bureau, Economic Growth Center,
Office of Agriculture and Food Security and MSU Department of Agricultural Economics" This page has information on personnel, meetings, projects etc.

Africa Nutrition Analysis Initiative

Brief information on this project of USAID. "The Africa Nutrition Initiative is funded by the USAID Bureau for Africa and the Global Bureau Office of Nutrition through the Food Security and Nutrition Monitoring Project (IMPACT). Its purpose is to make available to decision makers and technicians nutrition related information contained in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) surveys in usable formats for policy formulation and program development. DHS surveys offer a timely and cost-effective method for the measurement of child growth (height, weight) and the gathering of information on young child feeding practices, disease prevalence and other relevant information."

FAO: Internet Forum on Food Security

A web based discussion forum set up as a follow on from the 50th Anniversary
Symposium of the FAO held in Quebec City in October of 1995. You can subscribe or read existing messages.

Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger

"The Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger (FICAH) is a voluntary initiative of the American Food Industry to alleviate hunger and malnutrition in the United States and around the world." Organisational information only.

HungerWeb (Brown Univ.), Oxfam

"Project of the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program at the Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University. Its aim is to help prevent and eradicate hunger by facilitating the free exchange of ideas and information regarding the causes of, and solutions to, hunger. It contains both primary information, made available by the World Hunger Program and its partners, and links to other sites where information of relevance to hunger can be found. "

National Academy Sciences reports

National Academy Press publishes a range of technical publications, including reports from the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine, many of which have a food security perspective. These are available on-line.

Some of the nutritional reports and texts are:

• Consideration of the Nutrition Components of the Sick Child Initiative
• Nutrition Issues in Developing Countries for the 1980s and 1990s
• Nutrition Surveys and Surveillance Activities in Russia and the Newly Independent States
• Estimated Mean per Capita Energy Requirements for Planning Emergency Food Aid Rations
• Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics

"longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US individuals and the families in which they reside. It has been ongoing since 1968. The data are collected annually, and the data files contain the full span of information collected over the course of the study. PSID data can be used for cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intergenerational analysis and for studying both individuals and families" Data. reports and newsletter available on-line.

Program Against Micronutrient Malnutrition

In collaboration with OMNI (see above). The focus of PAMM is to assist countries with developing their own technical capacity and management systems. Group from Emory University with focus on eliminating micronutrient deficiency. "To accomplish these goals, PAMM works to build public-private sector alliances, strengthen regional and national education and training systems, raise awareness through advocacy at all levels, and to develop standards to establish quality assurance of national micronutrient programs." This page is part of the OMNI site and is descriptive only.

OXFAM

"Oxfam is a development, advocacy, and relief agency working to put an end to poverty world-wide. Oxfam believes that poverty is not inevitable: it can be tackled. In partnership with local groups, Oxfam works with poor people to help them help themselves." Web site has organisational information and some publications.

Program in International Nutrition: UC Davis

"Established in 1987 to coordinate research and training activities concerning human nutrition problems of low-income countries, and of ethnic minorities and disadvantaged groups in the United States." Web page has program and staff information and a few links.

The Sick Child Initiative: Consideration of the Nutrition Components

Full text of the 1995 report of the Committee on International Nutrition, Food and Nutrition Board, Board on International Health, Institute Of Medicine. The Sick Child Initiative is a public health project to ensure proper paediatric care and assessment is available to children with common diseases such as measles, gatroenteritis etc,, particularly in Third World and poor loving environments. This report looks at the nutritional issues involved, and is very much a public health perspective as well as clinical.

USDA Child Nutrition Programs

Information from the USDA's Food and Consumer Service on the various government child nutrition programs (e.g. National School Lunch, The School Breakfast, the Special Milk , the Summer Food Service, and the Child and Adult Care Food Programs.

USDA Economics and Statistics System

In conjunction with Cornell University, "contains nearly 300 reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics.

World Food Aid Needs and Availabilities

This full-text report can be downloaded from the Cornell Mann library. It is a study of world food aids needs, defined as amount of grain needed to fill the gap between what a country can produce plus its financial capacity to import commercially, and a targeted consumption level including emergency needs. Factors considered include supply and demand, prices and trade, food production, yields, fertilizer use, land constraints, water and irrigation,population growth, food consumption and nutrition, domestic policies, foreign exchange availablilities.

World Hunger Year

Program devoted to alleviating hunger and poverty in the US by projects which foster self-reliance.

World Food Summit
There has been a lot of Internet output relating to this ground-breaking meeting held by WHO in Rome in 1992. Here are some relevant web pages:

Rome International Conference on Nutrition

This conference immediately preceeded the Summit, and was the original source of the Rome Declaration. This web page has access to the Declaration, background notes etc.

World Food Summit: outcomes

Outcomes and news from the meeting.

WHO: World Declaration and Plan of Action for Nutrition

Outcome of meeting in Rome in 1992, this plan is supposed to form the basis of individual country's action plans. For at least one country which did do this, see New Zealand's plan (above).

World Food Summit: preparation documents from the GAO

Government Accounting Office document prepared for world Food Summit entitled Food Security: Preparations for the 1996 World Food Summit. (13 pp. plus 5 appendices, November 7, 1996).

USDA: Discussion Paper on International Food Security

Detailed comments and response to the World Food Summit from the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service which concerns itself with developing and expanding foreign markets for U.S. food and agricultural products.

The worldwide magnitude of protein-energy malnutrition

Plain text article with several tables on data derived from the WHO Global Database on Child Growth, this focuses on prevalence of malnutrition relative to children with inadequate growth and the findings of national surveys in developing countries.

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This is a collection of nutrition links about public health nutrition, nutrition research, food security, nutrition research organisations and research institutes, public health nutrition organisations, international organisations, epidemiology of nutrition, research papers and research literature. This is a collection of nutrition links about public health nutrition, nutrition research, food security, nutrition research organisations and research institutes, public health nutrition organisations, international organisations, epidemiology of nutrition, research papers and research literature. This is a collection of nutrition links about public health nutrition, nutrition research, food security, nutrition research organisations and research institutes, public health nutrition organisations, international organisations, epidemiology of nutrition, research papers and research literature.