Nutrition Issues in Developing Countries for the 1980s and 1990s Proceedings of a Symposium (1986) / Chapter Skim
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PANEL DISCOSSION DR. WATERLOW: I would like to react to what Dr.
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the dominant international economic orthodoxy still focuses on how to cope with debt, how to get a country back on the right track so that it can seek financial assistance. But the international good-financialhousekeeping seal of approval is obtained by abandoning In economic matters, what we
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There are technical advances for which the training needs to be done externally; however, linkages have to be made to ensure that training facilities in Africa have access to some of the technologies or the scientific expertise needed for more comprehensive training. With respect to training, the international community has refused to listen to us for about 10 years.
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DR. MELLOR: We have a series of studies at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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DR. CHEN: I was hoping that the members of the panel representing international agencies and people in the audience would carry these ideas further.
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Chen was suggesting, and I know that there have been conversations about this within the nutrition community as well. I second his suggestion that this be given serious consideration.
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Chen has just said, that any approach to the needs of people, especially women and children, should consider their roles in society, their educational and employment needs, and population planning. If we look at this question from the point of view of maternal and child health, anyone working in maternal and child health in Africa who omits family planning for child spacing is omitting one of the most powerful preventive medicine tools that is available today.
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All of us are aware that rapid population growth underlies many of the problems we have been discussing here, but I viewed the absence of discussion about family planning as healthy. We want to address nutrition, maternal and child health care, and the role of women as the most basic issues.
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I think no country would want to remain primarily rural, because that would mean that the production pattern and the consumption pattern are both mostly agricultural, and there is not much variety in that. There is almost no margin for error; if bad weather strikes, food consumption has to be cut.
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However, if a family cannot do anything to improve its economic well-being, improving its health and nutritional status will not solve its problems. It leads to continuous dependence on handouts from UNICEF or some other organization.
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