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Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volume 10 , Number 1, March 1988


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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 ACC Sub-committee on Nutrition.

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© The United Nations University, 1988
WHFNB-37/UNUP-703
ISBN 92-808-0703-x
ISSN 0379-5721


Contents


Editorial policy

Nutrition and urbanization (part 2)

Urbanization and nutrition in low-income countries
Urban malnutrition and food interventions
Basic food consumption in north-east Brazil: Effects of income, price, and family size in metropolitan and rural areas
Infant-feeding practices among urban Libya women

Public health nutrition

Determinants of childhood malnutrition in Jamaica
The introduction of semi-solid and solid foods to feeding infants
Nutrition and diarrhoeal diseases
Growth monitoring in Indonesia: An assessment of coverage and regularity of attendance, Gedangan village, Central Java, June 1978 November 1981

Food science

Protein enrichment of cashew wastes for animal feeds
Milling high-tannin and low-tannin varieties of sorghum

IFPRI abstracts

Book reviews and notices

News and notes

Letter to the editor

UNU projects on food and nutrition

Recent and Forthcoming UNU Publications on Food and Nutrition


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