Setting the focus An attempt to define the concepts A development paradigm? Multidisciplinarity The role of conceptual frameworks Ideology Ethos and norms Conflicts in the terminology? Subjectivity of the sciences…
Abstract – Résumé – Resumen The role of health and nutrition in development Capacity of the current system to alleviate hunger and malnutrition. Abstract – Résumé – Resumen IFDA Dossier…
Abstract The conceptualization of malnutrition as a problem and its effects on nutrition policy formulation: A review of the literature The challenge of feeding the people: How it has been…
How is our ethos formed? How is ideology formed? Liberals and radicals – a typology How relevant is our work? Are we politically naif? Are we afraid of speaking-up in…
Ethos Ideology Liberals Radicals Political naivete? Social consciousness What can I do? Tool Establish links References Food Policy, Vol.7, No.2, May 1982. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com What drives nutritionists in their…
Penguin Books. London. 1988 (A Pelican Book Paperback, Economics and Current Event Series). 290 pp. Also Food First Books. Grove Press, New York, 1988, 292 pp. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com Did…
Understanding the roots of the problem: Western medicine and its hierarchy The participation issue Decentralization Steps towards de-westernization Notes References Third World Medicine and Social Change, Chapter 3, University Press…
Homage to Urban Jonsson A Giant for the World and for Children Compiled and edited by Claudio Schuftan Bjorn Ljungqvist The late, great Urban Jonsson Urban passed away on March…
Science: Its political, ideological and ethical implications The scientist as a promoter of status quo or social change Economic power, political power and poverty Where do liberal food and nutrition…
Big Food Watch network member Claudio Schuftan writes: In his commentary ‘Words for our sponsors’ (1), Fabio Gomes says rightly: ‘ “Big Food” refers to the class of food and…