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Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volume 3, Number 4, October 1981


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Published by the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan.

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The Food and Nutrition Bulletin incorporates and continues the former PAG Bulletin of the Protein-Calorie Advisory Group of the United Nations system and is published quarterly by the World Hunger Programme of the United Nations University in collaboration with the United Nations ACC Sub-Committee on Nutrition. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the United Nations University or the UN ACC Sub-Committee on Nutrition.

All correspondence, suggestions, comments, news, and notes should be addressed to: Food and Nutrition Bulletin, The United Nations University, Toho Seimei Building, 15-1 Shibuya 2-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150, Japan. All material may be freely reproduced providing acknowledgement is given and a copy of the publication containing the reproduction is sent to the Bulletin.

(c) The United Nations University, 1981
WHFNB-12/UNUP-354
ISSN 0379-5721
ISBN 92-808-0354-9


Contents


Hunger and society

Understanding hunger and predicting starvation
Social structure, land use, and food availability in the Caribbean
Village food and nutrition planning in Tanzania
Methodological issues in nutritional anthropology

Hunger and technology

Home-prepared food supplements, mothercraft centres, and nutrition in Haiti

Hunger and health

Therapeutic interventions in diarrhoea
Trace elements and immunity: A synopsis of current knowledge
Results of a school lunch programme in India

News and notes

Scientific meetings
Forthcoming meetings and workshops
Publications available
Regional training programme on food and nutrition planning

Book review

Human nutrition in tropical Africa.

UNU world hunger programme


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