61. On Health Sector Reform, Health, Poverty and Other Herbs
I have been re-reading some of the Health Sector Reform (HSR) and health and poverty literature. I have been amazed by the ambiguity, lack of clarity and of a sense…
60. Human Rights Based Planning: The New Approach
The Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Vol.42, No.1, Jan/Feb 2003. 1. All agencies of the UN regularly prepare long term plans of action for approval by their respective boards. To…
59. Letter to The Lancet – Draft 2 IMCI: An Initiative in Need of a New Name, a Greater Community-Centered Focus, and a Grassroots Mandate
Dear Editor, IMCI, the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness programme is slowly gaining some recognition in our everyday parlance. We applaud IMCI’s positive aspects, i.e. its attempt to integrate care…
58. Remembering, a poem
Eduardo Galeano The new millennium is just around the corner. Nothing to take too seriously: After all, the year 2001 of the Christians is the year 1379 of the Muslims,…
57. Food for Finding where Your Thoughts Are – Variations on a Theme by the Chilean Writer Isabel Allende
VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY THE CHILEAN WRITER ISABEL ALLENDE. Inspired, extracted (plagiarized) and paraphrased from her novel “The Daughter of Fortune”, Plaza y Janes Editores SA, Barcelona, 1999, pp…
56. Food for a Capitalist thought – Book Review – The Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
THE LUGANO REPORT: ON PRESERVING CAPITALISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, with and Appendix and Afterword by Susan George, Pluto Press, London, Sterling (Virginia), 1999. Paperback, 213 pp. The powers that…
55. A Letter to the Student Erica who is Planning to Specialize in International Nutrition
Dear Erica, You probably did not expect that a
54. The Role of Human Rights in Politicizing Development Ethics, Development Assistance and Development Praxis
Claudio Schuftan schuftan@gmail.com The vast majority of humanity just has the right to see, to hear… and to remain silent. (Eduardo Galeano) A touch of history 1. The newly emerging…
53. Elements for a Nutrition Activism Course and Curriculum
Unfinished draft CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com Giving graduate students of nutrition a chance to practice activism skills vis a vis the problems which we are training them to resolve is a…
52. Neoliberal Global Restructuring, or the Fable of the Mongoose and the Snake (Fableous food for thought)
Globalization and its negative consequences A dearth of workable solutions? The Equity/Equality approach The Human Rights approach Bolder steps are needed Three caveats In closing References CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com What…