Articles by C Gopalan

Household nutrition security in the 21st century must come to mean a lot more than avoidance of starvation. Foods for families must be adequate; that is, not just meet the bare energy needs for survival, but provide all the nutrients essential for normal development. The changing nutrition scene is influenced directly and indirectly by several interrelated factors. There is a need to evolve nutritional-orientation of food production programmes; examine and reverse the mistakes of the past and use new knowledge and technologies to evolve new strategies for combating under-nutrition.

As we move to the next century we face the cruel paradox that despite growing prosperity and spectacular technological advances, the task of ensuring health and well-being for the citizens of the world is becoming even more difficult and expensive and complicated than ever before. To be sure, we have conquered some old 'enemies' to public health, but new challenges

C Gopalan The transfer of health/nutrition technology related to basic health care and eradication of undernutrition in poverty-stricken populations cannot be looked upon as a purely commercial operation. The subject raises important humanitarian and ethical issues and calls for the adoption of international codes to govern and facilitate equitable technology transfer as between developed and developing countries.

Development and Deprivation The Indian Experience C Gopalan India