Improving Nutrition Security through Food Fortification

Improving Food and Nutrition Security through Food for Education Programs in Africa

Basic education is one of the most effective investments in improving economies and creating literate, self-reliant and healthy societies. Yet, more than 46 million children are out of school in Africa. They represent more than 40% of the world’s out-of-school children (UNESCO, 2002). Girls are particularly at a disadvantage — more than 24 million of them are not in school. In April 2000, 164 c...

nutrition security versus food security

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Food and Nutrition Security

3.3.3 The country adopted multi-sectoral, multipronged strategy to combat these problems and to improve the nutritional status of the population. Article 47 of the Constitution of India states that "the State shall regard raising the level of nutrition and standard of living of its people and improvement in public health among its primary duties". Successive Five-Year Plans laid down the polici...

Food and Nutrition Security

Improving Nutrition Through the Design of Food Matrices