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Issue 3 (January 1998)

Field Article

The Risks of Wet Feeding Programmes (page 4)
DPRK in Crisis, What Do We Know? (page 10)
Responding to the crisis in Congo-Zaire: emergency Feeding of Rwandan Refugees May-July 1997 (page 12)
The Role of Women in Food Management (page 18)
Reconstruction in Bosnia: Implications for Food Security and the Future of Food Aid (page 23)

Postscript

Postscript to 'The risks of wet feeding programmes' (page 5)
Postscript to 'Responding to the food crisis in Zaire' (page 14)
Postscript to 'Reconstruction in Bosnia' (page 25)

Research

Counting and Identification of Beneficiary Populations in Emergencies: Registration and its Alternatives (page 6)
HIV Transmission and Breast-feeding (page 7)
Should Iron Supplementation be Daily or Weekly? (page 7)
Methods for Assessing Malnutrition in Older People (page 8)
Thiamine Deficiency and its Prevention and Control in Major Emergencies (page 8)
Inadequate Refugee Rations: Is this a Result of Planning? (page 9)
New Reference Data for MUAC for Height Measurements (page 9)

Agency Profile

Save the Children Fund (UK) (page 15)

Letter

Infant Feeding in Bosnia (page 20)
Kakuma Revisited (page 20)
Sphere Project (page 20)
Tinned surplus beef for DPRK? (page 21)
We asked Pieter Dijkhuizen to respond to the 'tinned beef letter' and our editorial comment (page 21)
Responding to the crisis in Congo-Zaire: emergency feeding of Rwandan refugees, May-July 1997 (page 22)
When is a Famine a Humanitarian Crisis? (page 22)

News & Views

Low Cost Extrusion Plant (page 16)
Redistribution of Commercial Farms in Zimbabwe (page 16)
Series of emergency meetings (page 16)
Guiding Principles for Infant Feeding in Emergencies (page 17)
Refugee Health, An Approach to Emergency Situations (page 17)
Summary of the revised joint WFP/UNHCR Guidelines for Estimating Food and Nutritional Needs in Emergencies (page 17)

Other

Backpage (page 26)
NGOnut discussion summaries - ORS v Resomal, Lactose intolerance, and split peas (page 26)