Food scarcity and famine : assessment and response
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Bibliographic Information
Food scarcity and famine : assessment and response
(Oxfam practical health guide, no. 7)
Oxfam, c1992
- : pbk.
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Over the years Oxfam has been involved in a wide variety of health-related projects. The Practical Health Guides draw on this experience to put forward ideas on best practice in the provision of health care and services in developing countries. Where people are suffering from food scarcity or famine, the obvious response seems to be food aid. This may indeed be necessary, but handing out food may not be the best solution, and other actions could be equally urgent, such as public health or income support measures. This book provides a new approach to assessing and responding to situations of food scarcity and gives a comprehensive explanation of how to assess these situations in order to judge which interventions will be most effective. This book offers advice on carrying out initial assessments and nutrition surveys, and emphasises the importance of finding out the underlying causes of food scarcity by seeking out the views of those affected. Food distribution, and how to target the people who need it most, supplementary and therapeutic feeding programmes, are also covered.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1: Food scarcity, famine and malnutrition
- 1.1 Food scarcity and famine
- 1.2 Nutrition and malnutrition
- 1.3 Looking at the wider picture
- Part 2: Assessments and surveys
- 2.1 Deciding what information you need for decision making
- 2.2 Choosing methods of collecting the information
- 2.3 Planning your assessment and organising your team
- 2.4 Analysing and interpreting your findings
- 2.5 Presenting your findings
- Part 3: Using your findings in making decisions
- 3.1 Your analysis of the situation
- 3.2 Choosing the appropriate response
- 3.3 Targeting
- Part 4: Food distribution
- 4.1 Some problems that might occur
- 4.2 General food rations
- 4.3 Supplementary feeding programmes
- 4.4 Therapeutic feeding
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Early warning
- Appendix 2: Wealth ranking
- Appendix 3: Selecting clusters for a nutrition survey
- Appendix 4: Nutrition survey statistics
- Appendix 5: How to measue children
- Appendix 6: Report format
- Appendix 7: Vitamin and mineral deficiencies
- Appendix 8: Nutritional value of food aid commodities and common foods in Africa
- Appendix 9: Oxfam kits
- Appendix 10: Food aid biscuits
- Appendix 11: Recipes for supplementary feeding programmes
- Appendix 12: Food storage
- Further reading
- Glossary
- Index
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