Food and nutrition

Nutrition and Food Security

Food fortifier means any natural or artificial food additive belonging to the category of natural nutrients that is put into food to increase its nutritive value.

National Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology

(a) Nutrition education and food labelling

(3) to disseminate knowledge of food hygiene and nutrition, provide appraisals of food hygiene and publicize the existing situation in food hygiene

Since 1991, the National Food Agency has conducted four different nationwide campaigns promoting better nutrition.

There is a general increase in food insecurity and a severe shortage of drinking water, as well as a decline in food consumption and nutritional levels.

Promote food and nutrition education, with particular emphasis on children, in order to improve their nutritional status

PRANI diet supplement (a monthly food parcel containing nine foods)

Resolve to integrate food and nutritional support, with the goal that all people at all times will have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, for an active and healthy life, as part of a comprehensive response to HIV AIDS

They have to be nutritious, and they have to be locally produced.

Promoting the administration of micronutrients, particularly to children

Pre packaged food must therefore be labelled with certain information.

Food and nutritional security (SAN) has been a priority of this Government, whose main achievement to date has been the creation of a lead agency, the Presidential Secretariat for Food and Nutritional Security (SESAN), under the legislation establishing the National Food and Nutrition Security System (SINASAN).

UNICEF is working closely with private sector partners, the Flour Fortification Initiative, the Micronutrient Initiative, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and the Asian Development Bank, in efforts including food fortification testing in China and Viet Nam.

In Namibia a food and nutrition policy, established in 1995, states that the Government will give priority to empowering the population to become self reliant in meeting their food and nutrition needs at the household level by promoting good food, health and nutrition practices.

Although prisoners receive three meals a day, the food they eat is nutritionally poor.

The quantity of food is insufficient and its quality mediocre, maize being the main item of nutrition.

(e) Food and nutrition.

(iii) Health and nutritional education on healthy eating habits, low cost wholesome food, myths and food fads, maintaining good personal hygiene, use of toilets, consumption of iodized salt, etc., will be promoted.

Community and school based food and nutrition programmes are essential to ensuring the nutrition and education of the children.

This reduction in the standard food ration has already contributed to the high malnutrition rates in parts of the country and the shortage of therapeutic and supplementary food has prevented an adequate response to the increasing number of malnourished children and women.

To be effective, ART must be administered to patients who also have access to nutritious food.

We still face extreme poverty, food shortages, hunger and malnutrition.

Food and Nutrition Despite the rapid progress made in food production and processing, mal nutrition continues to be a major area of concern for public health.

Gedo is beset with the highest malnutrition rates in Somalia (up to 23 per cent), based in part on chronic food insecurity.

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

27. Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the goal that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, for an active and healthy life, as part of a comprehensive response to HIV AIDS and other communicable diseases

It also planned to provide assistance, such as food, nutrition and shelter, to children in particularly difficult circumstances.

Efforts are needed to scale up food fortification in many countries.

Cecilia Albala (Chile), Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Universidad de Chile, Santiago

In addition, the Government has developed a consensus policy on food and nutritional security, the objectives of which are (a) to break the intergenerational circle of chronic malnutrition in the country (b) to expand the availability of basic foodstuffs (c) to improve the organic value of foods and (d) to assess and monitor the food and nutrition security situation in the country.

Special incentives were given to health staff in impoverished areas and the government re established the country's food and nutrition surveillance system to provide early warning of nutrition needs, especially in areas where food production had fallen.

International cuisine, healthful and nutritious food.

Article 18 Enterprises engaged in food production or marketing shall improve their own system for food hygiene control, appoint full time or part time workers to control food hygiene and strengthen inspection of the foods they produce or market.

It seeks to improve the nutritional level of the most impoverished groups through the provision of foodstuffs.

205. UNU food and nutrition programme staff participated in two meetings of the Subcommittee on Nutrition of the Administrative Committee on Coordination.

Producers or marketers of food means all units or individuals involved in food production or marketing, including workers' dining halls and food vendors.

To enable food insecure households, families and individuals to meet their food and nutritional requirements and to seek to assist those who are unable to do so.

But that black line shows what a food supply should be in a country if they allow for a good, stable, secure, nutritional diet for every person in that country.

177. A National Food and Nutrition Policy Project was prepared in 1992.

(l) Focus attention on female nutrition and food security FAO

WFP also participated in the ongoing work of the UNSCN working groups on HIV AIDS, household food security, school health and nutrition, nutrition in emergencies and micronutrients.

The food and nutritional situation is a major problem, reflected among other things in a high level of infant mortality, since a very high proportion of children are suffering from malnutrition.