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Revised objectives for the World Hunger Programme and a new sub-programme structure came into effect on 1 January 1981. They are the product of a review by the Programme of its objectives, direction, and activities which began more than a year ago, and are based on advice provided by the Programme Advisory Committee and other bodies, including especially a group which met in Bellagio, Italy, in April 1980 to discuss the conceptual basis of the Programme.
Overall Objectives
The overall objectives are to contribute to an understanding of the causes and consequences of hunger, both overt and hidden, and to initiate or promote the design, implementation, and evaluation of actions for its elimination. All approaches adopted for the achievement of these objectives are interrelated.
Sub-programme I. Hunger and Society
The objectives of the sub-programme on Hunger and Society are to uncover the relationships between hunger as a poverty syndrome and societies as characterized by their specific economy, technology, ideology, and politics and to initiate or promote the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and actions to eliminate hunger.
In order to achieve these objectives, the sub-programme will be focused on the following:
- the development of an understanding of the relationships between hunger and society, emphasizing the causes of hunger in different societies and including the identification and exploration of specific processes at the international level that cause hunger;
- improvement of the awareness and knowledge of political and other leaders of the causes and consequences of hunger;
- the development of methodologies for the evaluation of the food and nutrition effects of policies, programmes, and projects, including an evaluation of the implementation of UN resolutions and recommendations for alleviating hunger;
- evaluation of the role of community organizations in the alleviation of hunger.
Sub-programme II. Hunger and Technology
The objectives of the sub-programme on Hunger and Technology are to uncover the actual and potential effects, both positive and negative, of technology on hunger and to initiate or promote the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and actions for the application of technology in ways which will contribute to the elimination of hunger.
In order to achieve these objectives, the sub-programme will be focused on the following:
- the development of an understanding of the relationships between technology and the role of women in the production, conservation, and distribution of food, in order to contribute to the improvement of the status of women;
- identification of suitable technologies that will reduce the losses and improve the handling of food after harvest, in order to achieve more equitable food consumption (the World Hunger Programme's experience in implementing this activity is being reviewed in April 1981 for the purpose of drawing conclusions and recommendations of value to other agencies, organizations, institutions, and governments and of determining whether it should be expanded, modified, or phased out);
- investigation and facilitation of the application of microbiology to the use of vegetable and animal residues for the production of big-energy and big-mass that will contribute to animal and human feeding.
Sub-programme lilt Hunger and Health
The objectives of the sub-programme on Hunger and Health are to uncover the relationships between hunger and health within societies and to initiate or promote the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and actions to eliminate ill-health related to hunger.
In order to achieve these objectives, the sub-programme will be focused on the following:
- the completion of the series of workshops, research projects, and publications in protein-energy requirements under conditions prevailing in developing countries leading to a joint FAO-WHO-UNU Expert Committee meeting on protein-energy requirements to be held in 1981;
- the ascertainment of the functional and practical consequences of iron deficiency and anaemia in developing countries, and the support of the evaluation and application of practical measures for their prevention.
The World Hunger Programme will seek to achieve all these objectives through research, advanced training, and dissemination of knowledge.
ASSOCIATED INSTITUTIONS
Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama
(INCAP)
Carretera Roosevelt, Zone 11, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Tel;
43762. Cable: INCAP GUATEMALA. Co-ordinator: Dr. Guillermo
Arroyave.
The Nutrition Center of the Philippines (NCP)
Nutrition Center of the Philippines Bldg., South Super
Highway, Nichols Interchange, Makati, Metro Manila 3116,
Philippines. Tel. 85-30-71 to 79. Cable: NUTRICEN MANILA.
Co-ordinator: Dr. Rodolfo Florentino.
Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI)
Mysore 570013, India. Tel. 22298. Cable: UNVERCENT MYSORE.
Telex: 0846-241 FTRI IN. Co-ordinator: Dr. C.P. Natarajan.
Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA)
University of Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile. Tel.
214105, 214030. Cable: INTACHILE SANTIAGO. Co-ordinator: Dr.
Ricardo Uauy.
Tropical Products institute (TPI)
58-62 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1 X8LU, UK. Tel. 01-242-5412.
Cable: TROPRODS LONDON WC1. Coordinator: Dr. E.M. Thain.
The International Food and Nutrition Policy and Planning
Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard School
of Public Health (IFNP).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 20A-201, Cambridge,
Mass. 02139, USA. Tel. 1617) 253-7617, Cable: MITUNATUNIV
CAMBRIDGE. Telex: 92-1473 MITCAM, Co-ordinator: Dr. Barbara
Underwood.
Centre for Research in Nutrition, Laval University (CRN)
Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada. Tel. 1418) 656-2439. Cable:
AGRAL-2BC-UL CANADA. Telex: 21-5131621. Co-ordinator: Dr. J.C.
Dillon.
Department of Nutrition and Food Science. University of
Ghana (DNFS)
PO Box 134, Legon, Ghana, Cable: UNIVERSITY LEGON.
Co-ordinator: Dr. R. Orraca-Tetteh.
Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University (INMU)
Salaya Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine,
Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama Vl Road, Bangkok 4, Thailand. Tel.
282-6435. Co-ordinator: Dr Area Valyasevi.
Universidad del Valle (UVC)
Apartado Aereo 20353, Cali, Colombia. Co-ordinator: Dr. Luis
Fajardo.
University of the West Indies (UWI)
St. Augustine Campus: Faculty of Agriculture, Department of
Crop Science, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Tel. 6627171. Cable:
STOMATA PORT OF SPAIN. Contact: Dr. Lawrence Wilson. Mona Campus:
Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
Tel. 927-6661. Cable: UNIVERS JAMAICA. Contact: Dr. Alan Jackson.
CO-OPERATING INSTITUTIONS
Through IFNP
Department of Nutrition, Cornell University, USA
Department of Nutrition, University of Connecticut, USA
Food Protein Research and Development Center, Texas A&M
University System, USA
Division of Geographic Medicine, Tufts University Medical Center,
USA
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of
Massachusetts, USA
Through TPI
Dunn Laboratories, Cambridge, UK
Department of Food Science, University of Reading, UK
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Through NCP
University of the Philippines at Los Baños Philippines.
Through INCAP
Food Protein Research and Development Center, Texas A&M
University System, USA
CO-OPERATING ORGANIZATIONS
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
International Union of Food Science and Technology (lUFoST)
International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS)
UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM
The World Hunger Programme co-operates with the appropriate
units or divisions of the following organizations with which the
University her memoranda of understanding:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
World Health Organization (WHO)
It represents the University on the Administrative Committee on Co ordination-Sub-committee on Nutrition.
WORLD HUNGER PROGRAMME STAFF
Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Senior Adviser
Dr. Urban Jonsson, Programme Officer
Ms. Rozanne Chorlton, Assistant Programme Officer
Mrs. Audrey Yuse, Administrative Assistant
Mrs. Elsie Kimi Buma, Secretary
Ms. Noriko Hasegawa, Secretary
Mrs. Masako Nakagawa, Secretary
Field staff
Dr. Fred T. Sai, Regional Co-ordinator for Africa and Europe*.
Dr. Samir Miladi, Regional Co-ordinator for the Middle East and
North Africa
Dr. Maria A. Tagle, Regional Co-ordinator for Latin America and
the Caribbean*
Dr. William Rand, Research Co-ordinator.
Miss Jane Dittrich, Editorial Assistant*
Ms. Patricia Jayson, Administrative Assistant, Cambridge
Programme Office*
Mrs. Donnalee Reagan, Secretary, Cambridge Programme Office*
*Part-time
PROTEIN-ENERGY REQUIREMENTS RESEARCH NETWORK
Department of Nutrition and Biochemistry, Korea University Medical College. 4, 2GA Nyoung-Yun-Dong, Jong-Ro-Ku, Seoul, Korea 110. Principal investigator: Dr. Jin Soon Ju.
Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University. Salaya Campus. c/o Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama Vl Road, Bangkok 4, Thailand. Principal investigator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi.
Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama Vl Road, Bangkok 4, Thailand. Principal investigator: Dr. Kraisid Tontisirin.
Food and Nutrition Research Center, National Science Development Board. Pedro Gil St., Ermita, Manila, 2801, Philippines. Principal investigator: Dr. Carmen L. Intengan.
Division of Nutrition, National Institute of Nutrition. San Buenaventura y Viaducto Tlalpan, Tlalpan, Mexico 22 DF, Mexico. Principal investigator: Dr. Hector Bourges.
Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP). Carretera Roosevelt, Zona 11, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Principal investigators: Dr. Ricardo Bressani, Dr. Benjamin Torún, Dr. Fernando E. Viteri.
Universidad del Valle. Apartado Aereo 20353, Cali, Colombia. Principal investigator: Dr. Luis F. Fajardo.
Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Prêto. 14.100-Ribeirão Prêto, São Paulo, Brazil. Principal investigator: Dr. Jose E. Dutra de Oliveira.
Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA), University of Chile. Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile. Principal investigators: Dr. Ricardo Uauy, Dr. Hector Araya.
Department of Nutrition Requirements and Growth, Nutrition Institute. 16 Kasr El-Aini St., Cairo, Egypt Principal investigator: Dr. Mohammed Amr Hussein,
Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ibadan. Ibadan, Nigeria. Principal investigator: Dr. Tola Atinmo.
Institute of Child Health, Hacettepe University. Ankara, Turkey, Principal investigator: Dr. Imran Ozalp.
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, GPO Box 128, Dacca 2, Bangladesh. Principal investigator: Dr. Abdul Mejid Molla.
Department of Paediatrics, Institute of Medical Sciences, Benares Hindu University. Varanasi-5, India. Principal investigator: Dr. K.N. Agarwal.
Institute of Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. 29 Nan Wei Road, Beijing, People's Republic of China. Principal investigator: Dr. Hsue-Cun Chen.
College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Taiwan University. No. 1, Sect. 1, Jen-Ai Road, Taipei, Taiwan. Principal investigator: Dr. Po-Chao Huang.
Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, Tokushima University. 3 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Principal investigator: Dr. Goro Inoue.
University of Cambridge, and Medical Research Council. Dunn Nutritional Laboratory. Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1XJ, UK. Principal investigator: Dr. Roger Whitehead,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, Keppel Street, London SC1 E 7HT, UK. Principal investigator: Dr. John C. Waterlow.
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Mass. 02139, USA. Principal investigator: Dr. Vernon R. Young.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California. Berkeley, Calif. 94720, USA. Principal investigators: Dr. Doris Calloway, Dr. Sheldon Margen.