Background: Food security has been a target in India since its independence; the primary aim of food security is to ensure enough staple food for the entire population. Although substantial progress was made through the adoption of green revolution (GR) technologies and implementation of the food public distribution system (PDS), desirable food and nutrition security, as defined by the food and...

Today's agriculture provides an ever increasing population with sufficient quantities of food. During food production, processing, handling and transportation, an amount of energy is invested into the various products. An energy analysis of a typical American diet provides policy makers, farmers and the public with the necessary information to evaluate and make informed decisions as to how to i...

In the present paper I shall try to discuss the ideas and principles underlying the estimates of human energy requirements proposed by a consultative group set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization, World Health Organization and United Nations University, that met in Rome in October 1981 (FAO/WHO/UNU, 1985). I shall only consider adults, since Whitehead (1986) discusses the requirements o...

The following article has been reprinted with permission of the author and the editor of the journal in which it f irst appeared, FWD AND NUTRITION, wlune 18, nufikr 1 U984, a biannual review by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization devoted to world developments in food policg and nutrition. The FA0 review is found in most university libraries. An unabridged copy of the original ...

throughout the gastrointestinal tract of pre-weaned calves 2 3 Nilusha Malmuthuge, Philip J. Griebel , Le Luo Guan 4 5 Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 6 AB, Canada; Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, SK, 7 Canada; School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada. 8 9 Corresponding Aut...

University of California – Los Angeles School of Public Health, P.O. Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90052, USA b Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7624, USA d Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, The Laborat...