Although it is generally recognized that good nutrition is a desirable goal of development and that direct nutritional intervention is often required in relief situations, investment in nutrition programmes has been relatively poor because:
F nutrition has been regarded as an outcome of rather than an input into development;
F nutrition programmes have been viewed as less cost-effective than some other investments.
However, good nutrition can have a significant influence on human and economic development, and there are cost-effective ways of improving nutrition. Furthermore, it is possible to quantify the relation- ships in question.
The scaling up of nutrition programmes from pilot schemes to national programmes requires expansion in the financial, political and other dimen- sions. It is not enough, of course, to attain the