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Community nutrition programmes, globalization and sustainable development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2007

José Carlos Suárez-Herrera
José Carlos Suárez-Herrera*
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain and Department of Health Administration, University of Montreal, Québec, Canada
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*Corresponding author: José Carlos Suárez Herrera, fax +1514 343 2207, email jc.suarez.herrera@umontreal.ca
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Abstract

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On an international scale, the last seventy-five years have been a period of deep social, economic and political transformation for the developing countries. They have been especially influenced by the international phenomenon of globalization, the benefits of which have been unequally distributed among countries. In this context, the strategies used to improve the general nutritional health of the population of developing countries include broad approaches integrating nutritional interventions in a context of sustainable community development, while valuing the existing relations between fields as diverse as agriculture, education, sociology, economy, health, environment, hygiene and nutrition. The community nutrition programmes are emblematic of these initiatives. Nevertheless, in spite of the increasing evidence of the potential possibilities offered by these programmes to improve the nutritional status and contribute to the development and the self-sufficiency of the community, their success is relatively limited, due to the inappropriate planning, implementation and evaluation of the programmes. In the present article, I attempt to emphasie the importance of community participation of the population of developing countries in the community nutrition programmes within the context of globalization. This process is not only an ethical imperative, but a pragmatic one. It is a crucial step in the process of liberation, democratization and equality that will lead to true sustainable development.

Keywords

Community nutrition programmesDeveloping countriesGlobalizationCommunity participationSustainable development
Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 96 , Issue S1 , August 2006 , pp. S23 - S27
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2006

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