Round Table : Challenges and expectations . Synthesis

- Researchers in applied nutrition face the same difficulties and challenges as other researchers in developing countries :

• Isolation
• Lack of adequate research infrastructure
• Low competitiveness in getting financial support
• Research priorities often established in the North
• Difficulties in disseminating, popularising, and especially operationalising results

- More specifically, with reference to applied nutrition research, the Symposium emphasized the following points:

• Poor understanding and/of lack of recognition of applied nutrition research
• Shortage of researchers trained in applied nutrition research
• Rapidly changing scene of nutrition in developing countries
• Difficulties and ethical problems of studying people if there is no sustainable intervention to assist them
• Difficulties in applying results

- Details on these issues, as well as the researchers' specific expectations can be found in the Symposium Proceedings.