Title Scaling up, scaling down : overcoming malnutrition in developing countries / edited by Thomas J. Marchione

Published Amsterdam, Netherlands : Gordon & Breach Publishers, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 292 pages : illustrations.) : Contents I. Malnutrition and hunger: the challenge -- II. Scaling up the grassroots -- III. Assessment in partnership with the grassroots -- IV. Scaling down the summit Summary "The individual and institutional capacities required for the prevention and reduction of nutritional insecurity and hunger in lesser-developed countries as the twenty-first century approaches are identified in this book. Household nutritional "security" can be defined as the successful. The essays in this book champion the idea of increasing, or scaling up, grass roots operations to provide nutritional security, while scaling down the efforts of national and international institutions. Scaling up involves strengthening local capacities to improve and expand upon current successful programs by building upon existing local culture and organizations. This, in turn, enables the programs to strengthen relationships with national governments, international bilateral/multilateral donors, as well as non-governmental organizations. Scaling down concerns the ways and means by which these various organizations encourage and complement the local development. Therefore, as local capacities are scaled up, the national/international control over decisions and functions is, ideally, scaled down. The volume also directly addresses the resultant complication: how to create programs that are both culturally specific and that will flourish well into the future."--pub. website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Nutrition -- Developing countries Malnutrition -- Developing countries Malnutrition -- Government policy -- Developing countries Nutrition. Malnutrition -- Developing countries Nutritional Physiological Phenomena POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Malnutrition Nutrition Developing countries Form Electronic book Author Marchione, Thomas J. ISBN 9781315078526 131507852X 9781134390977 1134390971 1306222281 9781306222280 9781134390908 1134390904

Other Titles Overcoming malnutrition in developing countries

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