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Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volume 9, Number 3, September 1987

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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 0379-5721
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Contents

Nutrition and health in the Americas

Nutrition and health in the Americas: Introduction
Nutrition in Central America and Panama: Comparative data and interpretations
The Costa Rican experience in improving nutrition and health care
Comparative public health: Costa Rica, Cuba, and Chile
The nutritional impact of rural modernization: Strategies for smallholder survival in Mexico
Nutrition and agricultural change in southern Honduras
Agrarian reform and small-farmer welfare: Evidence from four Mexican communities

Nutrition policy

Planners' and professionals' attitudes towards nutrition-related policies and issues in developing countries: A case study in Morocco

Human lactation

Effect of dietary supplementation on lactation performance of undernourished Burmese mothers

IFPRI publications

Abstract
Commentary

Book reviews and notices

Programme on Food, Nutrition, Biotechnology, and Poverty

Note for contributors

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