Data on food consumption by high-risk family members: its utility for identifying target households for food and nutrition programmes

Pinstrup-Anderson, P. and García, M. (1983) Data on food consumption by high-risk family members: its utility for identifying target households for food and nutrition programmes. In: Intra-household Resource Allocation: Issues and Methods for Development Policy and Planning. United Nations University Press, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 164-175.

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Abstract

Efforts to targtt and assess the nutritional effects of food and nutrition programmes suffer from the lack of a unique or commonly agreed-upon indicator of nutrition impact. Anthropometric measures such as weight-and height-for-age are frequently used in evaluations of nutrition or food distribution programmes, while the impact on the food acquisition of calorie-deficient households is mote often used as a proxy for the nutritional effects of food and agricuitural policies and programmes. The impact on the food consumption of malnourished individuals is used in some cases, but much less frequently because it is more difficult and costly to obtain reliable data on indian vidual's food consumption than to obtain his or her anthropometric measurements, or data on household food acquisition...

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Households; Malnutrition; Food consumption; Nutrition Programmes; Philippines, RP6940
Author Affiliation:	Cornell University, USA
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Agricultural Economics Postharvest Management > Food Technology
Divisions:	General
Depositing User:	Mr Daneti Raju
Date Deposited:	16 Mar 2014 05:43
Last Modified:	16 Mar 2014 05:43
URI:	http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12607

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