Urges that nutrition educators have a crucial role to play in educating people to influence the economic processes of food production and marketing. Examines the relationship between food patterns, cultural values, and access to food. (SK)

Describes college level geography instruction in Tanzania. Based on the principle that educational systems exist to serve society, the geography course at the University of Dar es Salaam produces two types of career-oriented graduates--resource assessors and secondary school geography teachers. (RM)

The People's Republic of China has dedicated itself to the achievement of the Four Modernizations--science and technology, agriculture, industry, and national defense--which will move the nation to the high levels of technology found in the advanced nations of the world. (JOW)

A U.S. State Department assessment of the information and communication issues of the UNESCO General Conference at Belgrade, Sept. 23-Oct. 28, 1980. Includes abridged text of the UNESCO resolution on the MacBride Report. (PD)

Compares principles and practices of educational planning in socialist and capitalist countries, based on criticism and extensions of the discussion of educational planning by B.K. Kluchnikov in a recent issue of "Prospects," (v10 n1 p27ff, 1980). Information is also presented on socialist versus capitalist objectives for educational planning in…

Examines the structure, role, and needs of Africa's national and intracontinental transportation system. Characteristics of rail, water, road, and air transportation are examined. The conclusion is that high investment in transportation systems is essential to the development process. (Author/KC)

Describes the Chinese model of development, explains its five major elements (equality, rural emphasis, integration of modern and traditional ideas, decentralization, public participation and self-reliance), and discusses the role of communication in China's development process. Article is based on observations and interviews during author's visit…

Describes a study to test whether individualized teacher training materials which had been used successfully in both Britain and the United States could be used with similar success in a developing country and whether such a transfer would be advantageous. (Author/LLS)

Literacy is not an end in itself; the real concern is that illiterate people do not have access to the knowledge and skills that can improve their situation. Literacy education should be tied to a process of economic development. (SK)

Provides a public television executive's diary account of this two-week trip with a delegation of American television chief executives to the People's Republic of China at the invitation of the country's Central Broadcasting Administration. (CMV)

Discusses the role of international organizations and library associations in improving the libraries of developing nations, and describes the successes and failures of various programs aimed at universal bibliographical control, universal availability of publications, and promulgation of universal library standards. (FM)

Examines the controversy facing third world nations regarding whether it is preferable to continue to rely heavily on the importation of scientific and technical knowledge from foreign sources or to create conditions for generating such knowledge locally. (Author/DB)

Explores the problems facing library education in less developed countries as a result of the rapid transfer of advanced technology and the adoption of curriculums of developed countries in emerging nations. (FM)

The state of higher education in Venezuela is discussed. (MM)

Children's library work internationally rests in dynamic individuals who combine pragmatism with idealism, such as Janet Hill (England), Virginia Betancourt (Venezuela), Lily Amir-Arjomand (Iran), Hedwig Anuar (Singapore), Mitsue Ishitake (Japan), and Genevieve Patte (France). Innovators in the field are now more likely to come from non-North…