Introduction
Malmutrition is iften the result of economic poverty, not only in the Philippines but also in ither perts of the world. Lack of food supp;y.incorrect dietary food practices, ill health and other factora of under-nutrition generally prevail in conditions of abject poverty.
The Philippine Food and Nutrition Program which represent the collective efforts of the [...]
I belive that spending on the solution of malnutrition problem will be considered as an investment outlay and the allocation of resource to different programs will be determinded, to a greater extent than in the past, by their cost-effectiveness in solving the problem at its source. The formulation of future development programs on nutrition [...]
Now I would like to examine to what exten we , in Thailand,have followed the economist’s view on nutritn problems, as described above , in formulating our national nutriion policy and in designing and implementing nutriton intervention programs?
First of all, it must be stated that we are quite found of planning.We believe it is [...]
If people are malnourished because the prices of nutritive foods are high relative to the prices of less nutritive foods and of non-food items, the economist would investigste the reasons for the high prices.For example,if they are due to monopolistic practices of either the producers or the traders, the policy implication would be encouragement of [...]
As the focus of this paper is the economist’s view of nutrition problems and of government development programs to alleviate it, I think we should begin with the basic premises and principes on which economics is based. Then we can attempt to see whether and how nutrition fit in the economic picture.
It is a generally [...]
First of all,let me start with the dimensions of nutrition problem in Thailand. Il is a wellknow fact that Thailand is a resource-rich economy. Our agricultural sector has always been the most importance mainstay of all national production. As a food producing nation, Thailand is unrivalled in Asia. In fact,we are the largest net food [...]
In 1977, the 19th Session of the FAO Conference passed a resolution (8/77) that the Director-General suggests methods for ensuring that nutritional considerations are, as appropriate, adequately included in FAO’s planning and execution of agricultural projects and programs. Subsequently, the world Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (WCARRD)in 1979 enunciated in its Key Principles [...]
In Asia, despite growth of irrigation,cereal production and availbility continue to have serious seasonal variations. Depressions from average production range from 5 to 14% due to weather vageries.Such shortfalls exacerbate problems of food avaiiability and hence of nutrition, especially in food-deficit low-income countries and more particularty among the economically weak sections of the society. For [...]
It is significant to note in the decadc of the seventies that more than 80% of the increase in production of cereals in the Asian countries has occurred through the increase in productivity. It is equally significant to note that any further increases in production would also have to come largely by increasing productivity,because there [...]
In 18 Asian countries for whice data are availiable, food supply in terms of total average of calories per capita per day for the triennium 1978-80 is compared with normative requirements and is given in the Table2. From the Table it can be seen that in aggregate tems the food supply in 11 Asian countries [...]