Since the early 1980s nutritional levels have deteriorated in Latin America. A growing number of multinational and bilateral assistance agencies have intensified ongoing efforts at incorporating nutrition components into the formulation of agricultural, fisheries and development projects. The main focus is on measures that would reduce additional deterioration of nutritional status. This paper reviews the response of bilateral and multilateral development agencies to the situation and outlines some practical options of systematically incorporating nutrition considerations in the formulation of agricultural, rural, urban, educational, housing, health and industrial projects. The Sub-Committee on Nutrition (SCN) of the UN Administrative Committee on Coordination has served as a clearinghouse for information on the subject. In spite of the SCN efforts to work closely with nutrition authorities of bilateral and multinational development aid agencies, nutrition has not yet become an integral component of rural or urban development projects. A number of workshops have been sponsored by the SCN and by other agencies such as the International Development Bureau (IDB); their goals and aims are reviewed and it is concluded that to incorporate nutritional considerations into development projects requires overcoming image barriers to the effect that nutrition activities are complex, costly, difficult to administer and economically not readily justifiable.

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社会经济发展机构的营养工作

自 1980 年代初以来，拉丁美洲的营养水平已经恶化。越来越多的多国和双边援助机构加紧努力，将营养成分纳入农业、渔业和发展项目的制定。主要重点是采取措施减少营养状况的进一步恶化。本文回顾了双边和多边发展机构对这种情况的反应，并概述了在制定农业、农村、城市、教育、住房、健康和工业项目时系统地考虑营养因素的一些实际选择。联合国行政协调委员会的营养小组委员会 (SCN) 充当了有关该主题的信息交流中心。尽管 SCN 努力与双边和多国发展援助机构的营养当局密切合作，但营养尚未成为农村或城市发展项目的一个组成部分。SCN 和国际开发局（IDB）等其他机构赞助了一些讲习班；审查了他们的目标和目的，得出的结论是，将营养因素纳入发展项目需要克服形象障碍，即营养活动复杂、成本高、难以管理且在经济上不合理。SCN 和国际开发局（IDB）等其他机构赞助了一些讲习班；审查了他们的目标和目的，得出的结论是，将营养因素纳入发展项目需要克服形象障碍，即营养活动复杂、成本高、难以管理且在经济上不合理。SCN 和国际开发局（IDB）等其他机构赞助了一些讲习班；审查了他们的目标和目的，得出的结论是，将营养因素纳入发展项目需要克服形象障碍，即营养活动复杂、成本高、难以管理且在经济上不合理。