Food supplies for urban populations in developing countries.
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169 that in the short-term major efforts should be made to cut wastage and to increase the amount and quality of foods presently eaten by low-income families. Looked at in this way rural development and the conquest of urban food problems are related by agricultural development within the framework of real national economic developmcnt. In West Africa, for example, it is easier to get a low-incomc workcr to eat additional quantities of higher-protein foodstuffs known to him, for example cereal, cassava leaves, fish or meat, than it is to ask him to stop eating cassava and to switch to new foods. Where there is a choice, consumption of cereals should be encouraged over that of yams or cassava because they have a higher nutritional value, can be handled more easily and stored longer. Stockfish, though imported in large quantities from Scandinavian countries, has been in use for decades, and its continued use should be encouraged. I t is popular, has a high nutritional value, is easy to transport, stores well and compares favourably in price with locally produced protein-containing food. Meeting food needs is a political question in Africa and the ‘Third World, one which is linked to complex problems of trade, international diplomacy and the balance of payments. More powerful nations than they are in a dominant position. It is recognized that many food gift programmes are often launched to aid the donors’ surplus food problems or to create a dependent client-donor relationship. From the point of view of African governments, therefore, it is necessary to scrutinize all nutritional plans, all products and all aid programmes in terms of their net social benefit, that is the contribution they make to building healthy nations and independent, increasingly self-sufficient and just economies.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
دوره 29 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1970