Combating Micronutrient Deficiencies: Food-based Approaches

, MSc in Human Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, is a nutritionist with over 30 years of international development experience. He is Senior Nutrition Officer in the Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division of FAO dealing with Nutrition Security and Policy. Working initially for ICRC, WFP and UNICEF with the NGO community in Asia over five years, he led nutrition surveys, provided clinical treatment, designed and evaluated emergency relief and recovery programmes including feeding programmes, supported health prevention and promotion activities and coordinated the provision of comprehensive humanitarian aid to refugees and other vulnerable communities. He joined FAO Headquarters in Rome in 1987 and advises Member Countries on the development and implementation of policies, strategies and plans of action for promoting and improving food and nutrition security in both emergency and development contexts. has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning for Developing Countries with emphasis on food and nutrition security and livelihood issues from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV), Venice, Italy. She has extensive international experience in food and nutrition security policy and programme-related activities, with childhood, gender and HIV/AIDS components, in Ethiopia, The Gambia and Nicaragua. Since 2007, she has been working as a Nutrition Consultant in the Nutrition Security and Policy Group, Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division, FAO, where she provides advice and support to policy, strategy, capacity building, advocacy and programme activities aimed at improving food and nutrition security among vulnerable population groups. Ms Amoroso also collaborates on several initiatives designed to strengthen linkages between food and nutrition security assessment and decision making at policy and programme level.

• a: Foreword b: Preface c: Acknowledgments d: About the editors e: Contributors f: Introductory Chapter 1: Strategies for preventing multi-micronutrient deficiencies: a review of experiences with food-based approaches in developing countries 2: Addressing micronutrient malnutrition to achieve nutrition security 3: Agricultural interventions and nutrition: lessons from the past and new evidence 4: A 3year cohort study to assess the impact of an integrated food- and livelihood-based model on undernutrition in rural western Kenya 5: Food-based, low-cost strategies to combat micronutrient deficiencies: evidence-based interventions in Lesotho and Malawi 6: Animal source foods as a food-based approach to address nutrient deficiencies and functional outcomes: a study among Kenyan schoolchildren 7: Small animal revolving funds: an innovative programming model to increase access to and consumption of animal source foods by rural households in Malawi 8: Aquaculture's role in improving food and nutrition security 9: A home gardening approach developed in South Africa to address vitamin A deficiency 10: AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center's approach to alleviate malnutrition 11: Introducing vegetables into the India Mid-Day Meal Programme (MDM): the potential for dietary change 12: Developing micronutrient-rich snacks for pre-conception and antenatal health: the Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project (MMNP) 13: Approaches and lessons learned for promoting dietary improvement in Pohnpei, Micronesia 14: A food systems approach to increase dietary zinc intake in Bangladesh based on an analysis of diet, rice production and processing 15: Combating iron deficiency: food-based approaches 16: Human micronutrient deficiencies: linkages with micronutrient deficiencies in soils, crops and animal nutrition 17: Nationwide supplementation of sodium selenate to commercial fertilizers. History and 20-year results from the Finnish selenium monitoring programme 18: Leaf concentrate and other benefits of leaf fractionation 19: Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs): a methodology for conducting economic studies of food-based interventions such as biofortification