Nutrition Issues in Developing Countries for the 1980s and 1990s Proceedings of a Symposium (1986) / Chapter Skim
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III PANEL DISCUSSION
III PANEL DISCUSSION
Pages 97-106
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There is a lot of impatience in the donor community. We provide countries in need with preconceived development packages neatly contained in envelopes -- conventional envelopes.
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I am grateful that somebody mentioned the Tropical Disease Research Program, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Programs, organizations that have shown that one does not have to play it by proxy, but that the first objective can be developing local capacities. The second objective is developing, as fast as possible, new solutions to old problems.
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With respect to training, the international community has refused to listen to us for about 10 years. We have been trying to make people recognize that the training issue is going to return to haunt us when money is available for doing something; and if we do not obtain funds rapidly, we are not likely to succeed, regardless of how much money we start pouring into the field.
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Although there has been progress, particularly in the green revolution in the Punjab and in southern India, there are deplorable areas in Bihar, in West Bengal, in Orissa, in Madhya Pradesh and in large cities. The particular question I was-addressing was whether agricultural modernization in itself leads to the reduction of poverty and improvement in nutrition.
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HORWITZ: Dr. Chen, will you elaborate on two of your proposals for action -- the Nutrition Project Development Facility and activities to improve information dissemination and documentation?
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I thought that this would be fundamental in a discussion of nutrition issues for the rest of the 1980s and the l990s. This unresolved question of whether nutritional status is better or worse is a very persuasive argument in favor of the kind of documentation facility Dr.
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The rapid population growth in Africa is a very serious concern. I also expressed concern about the introduction of single isolated health interventions and technologies without adequate attention to such problems as birth spacing.
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On the basis of the World Bank report, the African countries that met in the original conference last year produced the Harrari Declaration. In it, they agree with the World Bank's statement that, whatever-the amount of external assistance provided for agricultural development in Africa, the race for economic development cannot be won if the population problem is not taken care of.
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I think no country would want to remain primarily rural, because that would mean that the production pattern and the consumption pattern are both mostly agricultural, and there is not much variety in that. There is almost no margin for error; if bad weather strikes, food consumption has to be cut.
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I claim a knowledge about some things in India, and I disagree violently with some of the statements that have been made about India. We recently returned after 25 years to 100 villages chosen at random in southern India, and there had been dramatic changes for the better.
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