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Purpose, Goals, and Functions
Purpose
To organize and implement a programme of research, training, and
dissemination of knowledge, directed to the alleviation of the
problems of world hunger and malnutrition.
Goals
i. To help alleviate pressing global nutrition problems
through instruments of scholarship.
ii. To contribute to the continuing growth of vigorous academic
and scientific communities concerned with food and nutrition,
particularly in the developing countries.
iii. To increase dynamic interaction in the world-wide community
of learning and research and awareness of and interest in, the
problems of nutrition.
Functions
i. Identifying pressing global nutrition problems that are
subject to alleviation through research, advanced training and
dissemination of knowledge and are not being adequately
recognized or sufficiently dealt with by existing national and
international institutions.
ii. Filling major gaps in knowledge and expertise concerning
these problems through (a) promoting and Organizing sustained,
internationally co-ordinated networks of mission-oriented,
multidisciplinary research and advanced training programmes; (b)
strengthening individual and institutional capabilities,
especially in developing countries; and (c) encouraging
innovative approaches to the examination of these problems.
iii. Disseminating to the United Nations and its agencies, to
scholars, policy-makers, and to the public, knowledge and new
perspectives concerning these problems resulting from UNU
activities and from other sources, thereby facilitating the
development of relevant approaches and solutions.
Associated Institutions
| Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama | |
| (INCAP) | |
| Address: | Carretera Roosevelt Zona 11 |
| Guatemala, Central America | |
| Telephone: | 43762 |
| Cable: | INCAP GUATEMALA |
| Co-ordinator: | Dr. Guillermo Arroyave |
| The Nutrition Center of the Philippines (NCP) | |
| Address: | Nutrition Center of the Philippines Bldg. |
| South Super Highway, Nichols Interchange | |
| Makati, Metro Manila 3116, Philippines | |
| Telephone: | 85-30-71 to 79 |
| Cable: | NUTRICEN MANILA |
| Co-ordinator: | Dr. Rodolfo Florentino |
| Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) | |
| Address: | Mysore 570013, India |
| Telephone: | 20200 |
| Cable: | FOODSEARCH MYSORE, or UNVERCENT MYSORE |
| Telex: | 0846-241 FTRI IN |
| Co-ordinator: | Dr. C.P. Natarajan |
| Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA) | |
| Address: | University of Chile |
| Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile | |
| Co-ordinator: | Dr. Ricardo Uauy |
| Tropical Products Institute (TPI) | |
| Address: | 56-62 Gray's Inn Road |
| London WC1X 8LU, England | |
| Telephone: | 01-242-5412 |
| Cable: | TROPRODS LONDON W.C.1 |
| Co-ordinator: | Dr. E.M. Thain |
| Venezuelan institute of Scientific Research (IVIC) | |
| Address: | Apartado 1827, Caracas, Venezuela |
| Telephone: | 69 19 41 |
| Cable: | IVICSAS |
| Co-ordinator: | Dr. Miguel Layrisse |
| The International Food and Nutrition Policy and Planning Program (IFNP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard School of Public Health | |
| Address: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, |
| 20A-201, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA | |
| Telephone: | (617) 253-7617 |
| Cable: | MITUNATUNIV CAMBRIDGE |
| Telex: | 92-1473 MITUNATUNIV |
| Co-ordinator: | Dr. Barbara Urderwood |
| Centre for Research in Nutrition, Laval University (CRN) | |
| Address: | Quebec G1 K 7P4, Canada |
| Telephone: | (418) 656-2439 |
| Cable: | AGRAL-2BC-UL CANADA |
| Telex: | 0513099 |
| Co-ordinator: Dr. J.C. Dillon | |
| University of Ghana (UGL) | |
| Address: | Legon, Accra, Ghana |
| Telephone: | 75381 |
| Cable: | UNIVERSITY LEGON |
The Advisory Committee
Dr. Moisés Béhar, Chief, Nutrition Unit, World Health
Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Sol H. Chafkin, Division of National Affairs and Social Development, Ford Foundation, New York, New York, USA
Dr. Freda U. Chale, Programme Officer, United Nations Children's Fund Office for Tanzania, Dares-Salaam, Tanzania
Dr. Wenche Barth Eide, Institute for Nutrition Research, School of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Dr. Yujiro Hayami, Professor, Faculty of Economics,
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Mogens Jul. Danish Meat Products Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark
Past Members of the Advisory Committee
Dr. Marie-Thérèse Basse, Director, Institute of Food
Technology, Dakar, Republic of Senegal
Dr. George H. Beaton, Professor and Chairman, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Stanislaw Berger, Professor and Director, Institute of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Food Technology, Warsaw Agricultural University, Warsaw, Poland
Dr. R. Alexander Buchanan, Australian Liaison Officer, ASEAN Sub-committee on Protein, Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr. Jose E. Dutra de Oliveira, Professor of Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, "Ribeirao Preto,"
Dr. Paul Lunven, Chief, Food and Nutrition Assessment Service, Food Policy and Nutrition Division, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Dr. H.A.B. Parpia, Senior Adviser, United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, AGDR, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Dr. D. Picou, Eastern Caribbean Medical Scheme, University of the West Indies General Hospital, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, West Indies
Dr. Roger Whitehead, University of Cambridge and Medical Research Council, Dunn Nutritional Laboratory, Cambridge, England
Professor Tasho A. Tashev, Institute of Nutrition, Sofia, Bulgaria
Sao Paulo University, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
Dr. Mamdouh Gabr, Professor of Pediatrics, Mounira Children's Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Dr. Darwin Karyadi, Director, Nutrition Research and Development Centre, Jalan Semboja, Bogor, Indonesia
Dr. Ade Omololu, Professor of Nutrition, Director, Food Science and Applied Nutrition Unit, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Dr. Frank C. Ramsey, Director, National Nutrition Center, Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies
Dr. Tokuji Watanabe, Director, National Food Research Institute, Tokyo Japan
Composition of Task Forces
WHP Task Force on Food and Nutrition
Policy and Programme Planning:
Dr. Fred Sai
Dr. Sol Chafkin
Dr. Paul Lunven (Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw)
WHP Task Force on Post-Harvest
Conservation of Food:
Dr. Mogens JuI
Dr. C.P. Natarajan
Dr. Ricardo Bressani (Dr. Maria A. Tagle)
WHP Task Force on Human Nutritional
Needs and Their Fulfilment through Local Diets:
Dr. Guillermo Arroyave
Dr. Roger Whitehead
Dr. Barbara Underwood (Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw)
NRP-WHP Task Force on Bioconversion of
Organic Residues for Rural Communities:
Dr. P. van der Wal, Chairman
Dr. C. A. Shacklady, Co-ord inator
Dr. C.G. Heden
Dr. C.V. Seshadri
Dr. W.H. Barreveld* (FAO)
Dr. E. da Silva* (UNESCO)
Dr. N.S. Scrimshaw (UNU)
Dr. A.C.J. Burgers (UNU)
*In their personal capacity.
New Publication of the United Nations University
Protein-Energy Requirements Under Conditions Prevailing in Developing Countries: Current Knowledge and Research Needs
The purpose of the report is to summarize the current state of knowledge on the subject and to provide suggestions for needed research. Content includes: Protein and Energy Requirements for Body Maintenance and Healthy Organ Function; Nutritional Consequences of Acute and Chronic Infections; Nutrient Requirements for Catch-up Growth and Tissue Repletion; with an appendix on Standardized Criteria for Comparative Nitrogen-Balance Studies of Protein Requirements in Children and Adults in Different Parts of the World, Consuming Diets Based on Traditional Social Practices.
WHTR-1 /UNUP-18
ISBN 92-808-0018-3
73 pages
US$ 3.00
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