Title: Hunger and health
First published: 1985
Description: Abstract: Eleven chapters address 11 questions on food production, health, and nutrition in developing countries. Each question is followed by a response, and supplementary readings on the topics of the question. The subjects of the 11 questions and the supplementary readings detail; increasing food production in developing countries without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides; reducing food storage losses without pesticides; the health effects of chemical agricultural products; the danger to Third World population due to export crops; dependence on mechanized food production; irrigated programs that are not harmful to general health; the economic and nutritional aspects of food processing; nutritional views on food imports; simple, inexpensive means to combat protein and vitamin deficiencies; and health improvements by changing the diet. Graphs, charts, and data tables are included. An extensive bibliography is included. (mdp).
Subjects: Nutrition disorders, Methods, Agricultural chemicals, Public health, Food crops, Diet, Food industry and trade, Food supply, Malnutrition, Prevention & control, Environmental health, Agriculture, Prevention, Gesundheitspolitik, Agrarpolitik, Entwicklungsländer, Ernährung, Developing Countries
Places: Developing countries
LC classification: S482 .A9313 1985