Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries

Thomas J. Marchione

Taylor & Francis, 1999 - Malnutrition - 292 pages

The individual and institutional capacities required for the prevention and reduction of nutritional insecurity and hunger in lesser-developed countries as the twenty-first century approaches are identified in this book. Household nutritional "security" can be defined as the successful
The essays in this book champion the idea of increasing, or scaling up, grass roots operations to provide nutritional security, while scaling down the efforts of national and international institutions. Scaling up involves strengthening local capacities to improve and expand upon current successful programs by building upon existing local culture and organizations. This, in turn, enables the programs to strengthen relationships with national governments, international bilateral/multilateral donors, as well as non-governmental organizations. Scaling down concerns the ways and means by which these various organizations encourage and complement the local development. Therefore, as local capacities are scaled up, the national/international control over decisions and functions is, ideally, scaled down. The volume also directly addresses the resultant complication: how to create programs that are both culturally specific and that will flourish well into the future.

Contents

• The Master Key to Child Survival: 23
• How Did We Get Here? A History of International Nutrition: 41
• The Culture of Nutrition Practice in a New Development: 49
• NGO Paths to Overcoming Hunger: 71
• Scaling Up a Poverty Alleviation and Nutrition Program: 97
• Mothers Help: 119
• A Community: 139
• Reflections on an Application: 227
• Improving the Practice: 243
• Conclusions: 269
• Index: 285

Bibliographic information

• Title: Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries
• Editor: Thomas J. Marchione
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 1999
• ISBN: 9057005476, 9789057005473
• Length: 292 pages