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The Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Child Nutrition

Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute, P. O. Box 140, Mona P. O., Kings-ton 7, Jamaica

John I. McKigney

Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute, P. O. Box 140, Mona P. O., Kings-ton 7, Jamaica

The steady growth of population, by outstripping the per capita availability of food, is negating economic and educational progress in nearly every pre-industrial and tropical country. In many of the food supplies, particularly of protein-rich foods, are already seriously inadequate. Young children are especially vulnerable to this grave and widening world "protein gap."

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