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Development and Nutrition
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Development and Nutrition

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ernestguevarra/devnutrition
• Owner: ernestguevarra
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2021-03-02T04:42:07.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-02-20T08:48:02.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-15T21:46:25.734Z (3 months ago)
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: https://ernest.guevarra.io/devNutrition
• Size: 66.4 MB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# Development and Nutrition

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This session will allow you to apply what you have learned thus far in the module to the issue of nutrition. Development processes have been related to what has been termed the 'nutrition transition' where populations are increasingly faced with the burden of overweight and obesity replacing that of undernutrition. However, as with the epidemiologic transition, we see a more nuanced dynamic of nutrition challenges corresponding to processes of development. Unfortunately, as SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) suggests, we have not been successful in eliminating undernutrition which remains a recognised global challenge. In this session, we will examine why, despite economic growth and advances in food production and distribution, the risk of undernutrition and famines persist. We will also critically review examples of development interventions specifically aimed at childhood undernutrition on the one hand and famines on the other. Through these examples, we will tease out the relevant considerations and likely mechanisms linking development to nutrition.

## Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the session, students will be able to:

1. Outline the trends in global nutrition burden with a critical view to the indicators used for its assessment

2. Critically discuss how and when the term 'famine' is used and its implications

3. Explain why interventions such as therapeutic feeding programmes for undernutrition and food assistance for famine relief show varying outcomes

# Essential Reading

no reading required prior to the session

# Further Readings

Sen, A. (1981). Poverty and famines. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sen, Amartya. “Famines as Failures of Exchange Entitlements.” Economic and Political Weekly , vol. 11, no. 31/33, 1976, pp. 1273–1280. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4364836. Accessed 28 Feb. 2021.

Stephen Devereux (2001) Sen's Entitlement Approach: Critiques and Counter-critiques, Oxford Development Studies, 29:3, 245-263, DOI: 10.1080/13600810120088859

Wilma E Waterlander, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Helen Eyles, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Christine Cleghorn, Peter Scarborough, Boyd Swinburn, Jaap Seidell, 

Food Futures: Developing effective food systems interventions to improve public health nutrition, Agricultural Systems, Volume 160, 2018, Pages 124-131, ISSN 0308-521X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2017.01.006.

Gillespie, S. and van den Bold, M. (2017) ‘Agriculture, Food Systems, and Nutrition: Meeting the Challenge’, Global Challenges, 1(3), p. 1600002. doi: 10.1002/gch2.201600002.

## Author

Ernest Guevarra

## License

This work is licensed under a [GNU General Public License 3 (GPL-3)](https://github.com/ernestguevarra/devNutrition/blob/master/LICENSE.md)