This is the old United Nations University website. Visit the new site at http://unu.edu


The United Nations University Press

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volume 4, Number 2, April 1982


Table of contents


Published by the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan.

Editorial address:

Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Charles Street Sta., P.O. Box 500
Boston, MA 02114-0500, USA
Tel: (617) 227-8747
Fax: (617) 2279405

Subscription address:

United Nations University Press
The United Nations University
53-70 Jingumae 5-chome, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150, Japan
Tel.: (03) 3499-2811. Fax: (03) 3406-7345.
Telex: J25442. Cable: UNATUNIV TOKYO.

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 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, 1982
WHFNB-14/UNUP-423
ISSN 0379-5721
ISBN 92-808-04423-5


Contents


Foreword

The United Nations University and Post-harvest Food Conservation

Hunger technology and society

Post-harvest losses in tropical Africa and their prevention
An index of quantitative and qualitative food loss
Food losses through energy transfer from cereal grains to stored-product insects
Misconception of food losses
Approaches to the assessment of food losses

Hunger, health and society

Introducing nutritional considerations into agricultural and rural development

News and notes

International Congress of Nutrition
Scientific Meetings

Book review

Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Interactions, Mechanisms, and Interventions.

UNU sub-programme on food, nutrition, and poverty


Back to United Nations University Press Page