NUTN 402: Applied Nutrition and Food Policies

Applied Nutrition programs, their implementation and evaluation; Effects of socio-economic factors on nutrition. Urbanization and nutrition. Nutrition education and methods of delivery of nutrition information to the public. Role of national and International organizations in combating hunger and malnutrition. Nutrition in emergency situations. Types of Food and Nutrition policies (FNP); Food importation and prices, income and quality of life, economic factors; necessary infol111ation for formulating FNP, efforts towards developing FNP for Ghana. FNP of other countries; food security; right to food.