This book, inclusive of 19 chapters, provides discussions on the benefits and limitations of food-based approaches for the prevention and control of micronutrient malnutrition. Different chapters focus on specific relevant topics, including current developments in food-based approaches and their program applications, relevance of agricultural interventions to nutrition, impact of multi-sectoral programmes with food-based approaches components in alleviating undernutrition and micronutrient malnutrition, animal-source foods as a food-based approach to address nutrient deficiencies, aquaculture's role in improving food and nutrition security, benefits of vegetables and fruits in preventing and combating micronutrient malnutrition, benefits of food-based approaches for overcoming single specific micronutrient deficiencies, and food fortification. This book will be of great use to professionals interested in public health, human nutrition, micronutrient deficiency interventions, food and nutrition security policy interventions, and agricultural research.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strategies for preventing multi-micronutrient deficiencies : a review of experiences with food-based approaches in developing countries / R.S. Gibson -- Addressing micronutrient malnutrition to achieve nutrition security / P. Shetty -- Agricultural interventions and nutrition : lessons from the past and new evidence / M. Arimond, C. Hawkes, M.T. Ruel, Z. Sifri, P.R. Berti, J.L. Leroy, J.W. Low, L.R. Brown and E.A. Frongillo -- A 3-year cohort study to assess the impact of an integrated food-and livelihood-based model on undernutrition in rural western Kenya / J. Fanzo, R. Remans, P.M. Pronyk, J. Negin, J. Wariero, P. Mutuo, J. Masira, W. Diru, E. Lelerai, D. Kim, B. Nemser, M. Muñiz, C. Palm, P. Sanchez, S. Ehrlich Sachs and J.D. Sachs -- Food-based, low-cost strategies to combat micronutrient deficiencies : evidence-based interventions in Lesotho and Malawi / J.M. Aphane, N. Pilime, N.J. Saronga -- Animal-source foods as a food-based approach to address nutrient deficiencies and functional outcomes : a study among Kenyan schoolchildren / C.G. Neumann, N.O. Bwibo, C.A. Gewa and N. Drorbaugh -- Small animal revolving funds : an innovative programming model to increase access to and consumption of animal-source foods by rural households in Malawi / A.C. MacDonald, B.J. Main, R.H. Namarika, M.E. Yiannakis and A.M. Mildon -- Aquaculture's role in improving food and nutrition security / B. Thompson, R. Subasinghe -- A home gardening approach developed in South Africa to address vitamin A deficiency / M. Faber, S. Laurie -- AVRDC : the World Vegetable Center's approach to alleviate malnutrition / M.L. Chadha, L.M. Engle, J. d'A. Hughes, D.R. Ledesma and K.M. Weinberger -- Introducing vegetables into the India Mid-Day Meal Programme (MDM) : the potential for dietary change / E. Muehlhoff, R. Ramana, H. Gopalan and P. Ramachandran -- Developing micronutrient-rich snacks for pre-conception and antenatal health : the Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project (MMNP) / D. Shivashankaran, S. Gurumurthy, S.H. Kehoe, P.S. Chheda, B.M. Margetts, P. Muley- Lotankar, A. Agarwal, N. Brown, S.A. Sahariah, V. Taskar, C.H.D. Fall and R.D. Potdar -- Approaches and lessons learned for promoting dietary improvement in Pohnpei, Micronesia / L. Englberger, A. Lorens, M. Pretrick, B. Raynor, J. Currie, A. Corsi, L. Kaufer, R.I. Naik, R. Spegal and H.V. Kuhnlein -- A food systems approach to increase dietary zinc intake in Bangladesh based on an analysis of diet, rice production and processing / A.B. Mayer, M.C. Latham, J.M. Duxbury, N. Hassan and E.A. Frongillo -- Combating iron deficiency : food-based approaches / B. Thompson -- Human micronutrient deficiencies : linkages with micronutrient deficiencies in soils, crops and animal nutrition / M. Nubé, R.L. Voortman -- Nationwide supplementation of sodium selenate to commercial fertilizers : history and 25-year results from the Finnish selenium monitoring programme / G. Alfthan, P. Aspila, P. Ekholm, M. Eurola, H. Hartikainen, H. Hero, V. Hietaniemi, T. Root, P. Salminen, E.-R. Venäläinen and A. Aro -- Leaf concentrate and other benefits of leaf fractionation / M.N.G. Davys, F.-C. Richardier, D. Kennedy, O. de Mathan, S.M. Collin, J. Subtil, E. Bertin and M.J. Davys -- Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYS) : a methodology for conducting economic studies of food-based interventions such as biofortification / S. Pérez Suárez.

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