The food-first bias and nutrition policy

Lessons from Ethiopia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11931270
AutoresDavid Pelletier (0000-0003-0134-6460, Cornell University, autor de correspondencia), David L Pelletier, Kassahun Deneke (Government of Ethiopia), Yemane Kidane (Ethiopian Public Health Institute), Beyenne Haile (Government of Ethiopia), Fikre Negussie
Año1995
Volumen20
Número4
Páginas279-298
Fecha de publicación1995-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFood Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0306-9192 • E-ISSN: 1873-5657
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/0306-9192(95)00026-7
PMID12291632
OpenAlexW2011597546
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas10

As in many countries from sub-Saharan Africa, nutrition policy in Ethiopia is dominated by a focus on national and household food production and food security. The results of the 1992 national rural nutrition survey, and a substantial body of evidence and theory from other settings, challenge this view. In Ethiopia, high levels of chronic malnutrition exist in food deficit and food surplus regions alike, and all regions have experienced worsening of nutritional status during the last decade. Moreover, child nutritional status is only weakly and inconsistently associated with size of cultivated area. Nutrition surveillance and other empirically-based efforts to improve policy should give explicit attention to policy education as an integral part of their stated objective and workplan

Agriculture · Clinical nutrition · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Food security · Geography · Malnutrition · Malnutrition in children · Micronutrient · Micronutrient deficiency · Obesity · Overweight · Population · Prevalence · Rural area · Underweight · Wasting · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Energy and Environment Impacts · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare