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Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volume 6, Number 2, June 1984


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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.

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ISSN 0379-5271
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Contents

In this issue

Hunger, health, and the society

Infant feeding in the Ivory Coast
Issues in evaluating food crisis warning systems
Application of incremental growth standards
Nutrition education: Lack of success in teaching Papua New Guinea mothers to distinguish "good" from "not good" weight development charts
Field guide for the study of health-seeking behaviour at the household LEVEL

Hunger, technology, and society

Tentatives d'introduction des légumes saumurés dans deux plats Sénégalais: le "Tiébou Dienn" ou riz au poisson et le ''Mafé Kandia" ou Mafé au Gombo
Detoxification of lathyrus sativus
Decontamination of drinking water by alum for the preparation of oral rehydration solution

Nutrition training

A collaborative effort in community nutrition training
Nutrition teaching at the tropical metabolism research unit, university of the West Indies

News and notes

International congress of nutrition
IUNS news
Training materials for nutrition field workers
Green revolution game
Teaching aids at low cost
AVRDC anniversary
Announcements
New and recent books

Book reviews

Plant proteins for human food
The family Rice Bowl
Brief reviews

UNU sub-programme on food, nutrition, and poverty


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