[Malnutrition aspects of South Mali farmers (author's transl)]

The results of a nutritional survey with two passages performed in July-August 1978 and March-April 1979 by ORANA in South Mali are presented: mild or moderate protein-energy malnutrition, anemia and specific deficiencies are everywhere present, but the situation deteriorates quickly from a season to the other and it is possible to characterize ecological, economic or cultural situations where nutritional status of the populations is worse than other. Among them the current economic modifications which are accompanied by nutritional modifications were emphasized as the need to consider this aspect in all development projects.