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Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volume 6, Number 1, March 1984

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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 PAG Bulletin of the former 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, comments, news, and notes should be addressed to: The Editor, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, The United Nations University Cambridge Programme Office, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 20A-201, Cambridge, Mass. 02139, USA. 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, 1984
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ISSN 0379-5271
ISBN 92-808-0513-4

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Contents

Hunger, health and society

National agricultural policies and world hunger
Functional consequences of marginal malnutrition among agricultural workers in Guatemala

Part I. Physical work capacity
Part II. Economics and human capital formation

Social, economic, health, and environmental determinants of nutritional status
Ethnographic studies of the effects of food availability and infant feeding practices
The duration of breast-feeding adequacy in a rural area of Bangladesh
The need and rationale for monitoring and evaluation of nutrition programmes

Household food distribution

The analysis of time allocation and activity patterns in nutrition and rural development planning
Women's role in domestic food acquisition and food use in India: A case study of low-income urban households

Hunger, technology and society

An old processing method, a new protein food
The keeping quality of wheat flour in different packaging materials

News and notes

Infoods-Asiafoods
IUNS news
Nutrition research grants
Scientific meetings
New book

UNU sub-programme on food, nutrition, and poverty

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