FIA
VAT
PANIS
المتحدة
الأغذية والزراعة
منظمة
联合国粮食及农业组织
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
ORGANISATION DES NATIONS UNIES POUR L'ALIMENTATION ET L'AGRICULTURE
ORGANIZACION DE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS
APRC/90/1
January 1990
PARA LA AGRICULTURA Y LA ALIMENTACION
TWENTIETH REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Beijing, China, 23 - 27 April 1990
PROVISIONAL ANNOTATED AGENDA
INTRODUCTION ITEMS
I.
1.
Inaugural Ceremony.
2.
II.
III.
Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairmen, and Appointment of Rapporteur.
3. Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable.
STATEMENTS
4. Statement by the Director-General.
5.
6.
Country Statements and General Debate on the Food and Agricultural Situation in Asia and the Pacific Region.
Report by the FAO Regional Representative on FAO Activities in the Region during 1988-89.
SELECTED ISSUES OF AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
7.
Action programme to overcome specific nutritional deficiencies.
Even though considerable progress has been made in increasing food supplies, the Asia and Pacific Region still has the largest number of malnourished people in the world. Despite measures taken by several governments to improve access to food by the low-income population, malnutrition and diseases due to specific micro-nutrient deficiencies are still widespread. Such diseases are debilitating and often cause physical handicaps which give rise to the vicious circle of poverty and malnutrition.
The paper reviews the technologies available for the prevention of these diseases and the efforts presently deployed by national governments and international bodies, including FAO, to control them. It underlines the need to formulate policies and programmes which increase the coverage and improve the effectiveness of such efforts to eliminate such intolerable and preventable suffering before the turn of the century.
Discussion is also meant as a regional contribution towards the preparation of the International Conference on Nutrition proposed to be convened in 1993 in Rome.
W/Z5648/c