Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries is an interesting volume that addresses a question that most people working in economic and social development face today: how to foster programs specific to particular settings in a way that promotes sustainability beyond the project itself. The major strength of the book is the authors' attempt to treat both the issue of moving beyond the small, controlled setting of a pilot project to a much larger effort ('scaling up'), as well as the response which must be made from the central agencies to facilitate such expansion ('scaling down')."
-Peter Heywood of Principal Health Specialist, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank
Book Description
The individual and institutional capacities required for the prevention and reduction of nutritional insecurity and hunger in lesser-developed countries as the twenty-first century approaches are identified in this book. Household nutritional "security" can be defined as the successful - and sustainable - achievement of nutritional status that is adequate for maintaining a healthy and active life for all individuals in the household. This security arises from an adequate supply of food in the house, sufficient care for the individuals, and the prevention and control of disease.
The essays in this book champion the idea of increasing, or scaling up, grass roots operations to provide nutritional security, while scaling down the efforts of national and international institutions. Scaling up involves strengthening local capacities to improve and expand upon current successful programs by building upon existing local culture and organizations. This, in turn, enables the programs to strengthen relation
Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries,T. Marchione,Routledge,9057005476,Agriculture - General,Anthropology - General,Economics Of Developing Countries,Famine,Social Science,Sociology,Aid & relief programmes,Anthropology,Developing countries,Dietetics & nutrition,Poverty,Social Science / Anthropology / General
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