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Gardening for Better Nutrition
Arnold Pacey
A nutritional approach directed to rural women to encourage them to grow more and better food for their families in areas of widespread malnutrition. Includes details of suitable tools, plant varieties and gardening methods for the tropics and subtropics.
ISBN 0903031507, (ITP), 1978, 64pp, £5.95,

Food Scarcity and Famine: Assessment and response
Helen Young
Gives practical advice to NGOs faced with situations where food scarcity has become a threat to people's livelihood and survival. Aims to help field workers make better assessments, and judge which types of interventions will be most useful.
ISBN 0855981458, (Oxfam), 1992, 124pp, £5.95,

Nutrition Matters: People, food and famine
Helen Young and Susanne Jaspars
This book is based on the authors' views and experiences as fieldworkers in situations of food insecurity and famine, combined with their in-depth knowledge of the discipline of nutrition. They develop a new conceptual framework of the role of nutrition in famine which can be used to analyse the underlying causes of malnutrition, the stage of famine, and the risk of disease and death.
ISBN 185339243X, (ITP), 1995, 144pp, £10.95,