While the importance of antenatal care for maternal and child health continues to be debated, several researchers have documented its impact on intermediate variables affecting survival such as birth weight. These studies have also highlighted the problems of causality that are typically not...

This volume is based on presentations at a colloquium held in Boulder, Colorado, in August 1985. It is divided into four parts. Part I includes a general introduction to the problems and prospects for development in Africa. Part II contains chapters that focus on internal and external factors...

Undernutrition and low dietary quality remain widespread problems especially among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Hence, the question as to how smallholder systems can be made more nutrition-sensitive is of particular relevance for research and policy. Recent studies analysed whether...