Can Food-Based Strategies Help Reduce Vitamin A and Iron Deficiencies?: A Review of Recent Evidence

by Marie T. Ruel

Micronutrient malnutrition is still a problem of unacceptable proportions in developing countries. Iron and vitamin A deficiencies are the most widespread nutrition deficiencies in the world today, affecting perhaps as many as 3.5 billion people. Food-based approaches are essential to the fight against micronutrient deficiencies. Of all the strategies, they probably require the highest level of initial investment, but they are also the only ones that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896295044
• ISBN13: 9780896295049
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: International Food Policy Research Insitute
• Length: 63 Pages