Title: Poverty and undernutrition
First published: 2000
Description: "A large share of the population in many developing countries suffer from chronic undernutrition. In this book, Professor Svedberg provides a detailed comparative study of undernutrition in Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia, the two worst affected areas, and provides crucial advice for all those concerned in development worldwide. The book concentrates on the five challenges that undernutrition creates: what undernutrition is, who the undernourished are, where the undernourished are, when people are undernourished, and why people are undernourished."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Poor, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Poverty, Public Policy, Deficiency Diseases
Places: Sub-Saharan Africa
LC classification: RA645.N87 S837 2000