Food intakes and nutritional status — implications for the formulation of development policies for Zambia

1 January 1979

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Vol. 7 (4) , 203-212
https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.1979.9990531

Abstract

The results of surveys of food consumption and nutritional status of the rural Zambian population are combined and the risk of nutritionally and anthropometrically defined deficiencies is related to measured nutrient intakes. The main nutritional problem emerging is that of insufficient food in general. This finding is discussed in relation to the formulation of development plans for Zambia. Increasing the availability of almost any suitable traditional food should alleviate the situation. Future applied nutrition goals must be kept within feasible limits if disillusion and apathy among local political authorities regarding past claims for the role of nutrition in development planning are to be forestalled.

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