Activities to Date
FSIH accomplishments (1994-1998)1 towards their objectives include:
- FSIH conceived and organized a "by invitation"
international workshop (95 participants from 31 nations, and 13 FSIH members)
to develop a consensus research agenda for using food- based approaches
to prevent micronutrient malnutrition. The workshop Declaration was sent
to 140 Ministers of Health/Agriculture; the summary report (5000 copies)
was distributed worldwide by FAO, UNICEF, WHO and FSIH. FSIH secured $180K
for this project.
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- FSIH executed a Memorandum of Agreement with
three leading Egyptian institutions for agriculture/biomedical research
which outlined a framework for inter-institutional collaborative research
to implement food-based approaches to micronutrient malnutrition.
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- A FSIH member (Combs) developed an undergraduate
course "Linking Food Systems and Human Nutrition Needs"
(N.S. 380) using a collaborative learning format.
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- FSIH conceived and organized a symposium "Creating
Healthful Food Systems: Linking Agriculture to Human Nutrition Needs"
for the 1997 AAAS meeting, Seattle, Wash.
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- A FSIH member (Combs) was named to chair the
International Union of Nutrition Science subcommittee "Consequences
of Recent Changes in Plant Production", 1996-1999.
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- FSIH members presented seminars on foods systems
approaches to several units on (SCAS; DNS; Plant Breeding; Internat. Nutrition;
Plant Biol.; Humphrey Fellows; Fruit & Veg. Sci., Food Science) and
off (World Bank, IFPRI, U.Arizona, Penn State, Guelph, UC-Davis, World
Bank) campus.
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- FSIH members prepared proposals for the Soil
Management CRSP "Sustainability of Post-Green Revolution Agriculture:
the Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia", (Duxbury, director;
funded: $3M/5y) and the Small Ruminant CRSP "Live-stock Production
to Enhance Human Nutrition and Health in East Africa: Assessment Team"
(Brown & Pell, directors), which will implement the FSIH concept.
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Only activities and products of FSIH members directly related to the FSIH
program are listed.
