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E-book Dietary Assesment : A Resource Guide to Method Selection and Application in Low Resource Settings
Strengthening and sustaining the capacity of countries to incorporate robust nutrition indicators into their information systems would help to generate better evidence for formulating effective agricultural and nutrition policies. The need for such robust information was recently reaffirmed at the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in November 2014. The Nutrition Assessment and Scientific Advice Group (ESNA), a branch of the Nutrition and Food Systems Division of FAO, plays an active role in providing technical support to countries in collecting food and dietary information. This support is often provided within a framework of generating evidence-based policies, implementing ICN2-related follow-up activities, and ensuring government accountability. In to produce better evidence for formulating effective nutrition projects, policies and
programmes, the most appropriate dietary assessment method first needs to be selected. This resource guide has been developed with the purpose of providing a comprehensible review on dietary assessment methods based on the latest research and development and the challenges and considerations that are linked to the selection of the most appropriate dietary assessment method, specifically focusing on low resource setting areas.
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