
Food Scarcity and Famine
Assessment and response
Series: Practical Health Guides
Published: 1992
Pages: 132
eBook: 9780855987206
Paperback: 9780855981457
Introduction
Part 1: Food scarcity, famine and malnutrition
1.1 Food scarcity and famine
1.2 Nutrition and malnutrition
1.3 Looking at the wider picture
Part 2: Assessments and surveys
2.1 Deciding what information you need for decision making
2.2 Choosing methods of collecting the information
2.3 Planning your assessment and organising your team
2.4 Analysing and interpreting your findings
2.5 Presenting your findings
Part 3: Using your findings in making decisions
3.1 Your analysis of the situation
3.2 Choosing the appropriate response
3.3 Targeting
Part 4: Food distribution
4.1 Some problems that might occur
4.2 General food rations
4.3 Supplementary feeding programmes
4.4 Therapeutic feeding
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Early warning
Appendix 2: Wealth ranking
Appendix 3: Selecting clusters for a nutrition survey
Appendix 4: Nutrition survey statistics
Appendix 5: How to measue children
Appendix 6: Report format
Appendix 7: Vitamin and mineral deficiencies
Appendix 8: Nutritional value of food aid commodities and common foods in Africa
Appendix 9: Oxfam kits
Appendix 10: Food aid biscuits
Appendix 11: Recipes for supplementary feeding programmes
Appendix 12: Food storage
Further reading
Glossary
Index
Helen Young
Helen Young leads the Darfur Livelihoods Programme at the ODI, which combines research, capacity development and institutional change. As a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, in Sussex, she reviewed nutritional assessment and response to situations of food insecurity and famine.