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Combating Micronutrient Deficiencies : Food-Based Approaches /

Micronutrient deficiency affects more than two billion people in the world today, contributing to the vicious cycle of malnutrition and underdevelopment. Micronutrient deficiencies have long-ranging effects on health, learning ability and productivity. Food-based approaches, which include food produ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thompson, Brian, 1953-, Amoroso, Leslie, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rome : Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ; CABI, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 [and others]
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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 [and others]
  • Introducing vegetables into the India Mid-Day Meal Programme (MDM) : the potential for dietary change / Ellen Muehlhoff [and others]
  • Developing micronutrient-rich snacks for pre-conception and antenatal health : the Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project (MMNP) / Devi Shivashankaran [and others]
  • Approaches and lessons learned for promoting dietary improvement in Pohnpei, Micronesia / Lois Englberger [and others]
  • 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 [and others]
  • Combating iron deficiency : food-based approaches / Brian Thompson
  • Human micronutrient deficiencies : linkages with micronutrient deficiencies in soils, crops and animal nutrition / Maarten Nubé, Roelf L Voortman
  • Nationwide supplementation of sodium selenate to commercial fertilizers : history and 20-year results from the Finnish selenium monitoring programme / Georg Alfthan [and others]
  • Leaf concentrate and other benefits of leaf fractionation / M.N. Glyn Davys [and others]
  • Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYS) : a methodology for conducting economic studies of food-based interventions such as biofortification / S. Pérez Suárez.