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Issue 9 (March 2000)

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Evaluation

Emergency Food Assistance Following Hurricane Mitch: an Evaluation of the WFP response (page 18)

Field Article

Mental health needed for caring capacity (page 8)
The reality of research in emergencies (page 12)
Including infants in nutrition surveys (page 15)
Linking early warning system information to response (page 19)

Postscript

Comment on: Including infants in nutrition surveys (page 16)

Research

Iron Pots: Not all Good News! (page 3)
Multi–micronutrient supplements for pregnant women from developing countries (page 3)
Aid Continues to Ignore Host Communities (page 4)
Project on humanitarian principles and practice for food distribution in conflict (page 4)
The effect of trade sanctions on health and nutrition (page 5)
Infant feeding patterns and HIV–1 transmission (page 6)
Infant feeding in a TFP (page 7)

Agency Profile

Trocaire (page 14)

Letter

Letter on targeting food aid, by Jean Gladwin (page 11)
Letter with article suggestions, by Inge Verdonk (page 11)

News & Views

ACC/SCN Annual Meeting (page 9)
Disasters – Discount for ENN members (page 9)
Local and global dimensions of food security (page 9)
Two International Meetings on Infant Feeding in Emergencies (page 9)
Responding to Emergencies and Fostering Development (page 10)
Workshop on Food Security Assessments (page 10)
Enhancing the Nutritional Quality of Relief Diets (page 11)
Management of severe malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers (page 11)

People in Aid

Interview with Rita Bhatia (page 21)
People in Aid (issue 09) (page 22)