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Exploring potential solutions to the many facets of malnutrition
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As human milk banks have proliferated, it has raised other concerns – technical, religious and political – and local policymakers would benefit from an international framework that would help them set regulations.
The world is already producing enough to feed the anticipated 2050 population, but doing so will require radical changes in diet and food production practices, according to a new paper.
Drs. Irakli Loladze and Kristie Ebi explain the impact of climate change on nutrition, and point to the need for more investment in cross-disciplinary research to develop potential solutions.
Obidimma Ezezika Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
As the double burden of malnutrition starts to become more prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, Obidimma Ezezika decided to find out if games might help young people make healthier choices when it comes to food.
Mary D’Alimonte Senior Program Officer at Results for Development
Jack Clift Program Director at Results for Development
Results for Development researchers emphasize the need to leverage the Investment Framework for Nutrition to scale up nutrition-specific interventions and get smarter and more systematic about nutrition-sensitive projects in other sectors.
Through their efforts to immunize livestock and introduce new, more productive breeds, veterinarians with Veterinaries Sans Frontieres Germany are working to prevent South Sudan from descending into famine. Malnutrition Deeply spoke to Silvester Okoth, the country director.
Through an app, Chowberry, local groups can identify food that is close to its expiration date at nearby grocery stores. They can purchase this food for a reduced price and distribute it to people who might otherwise not get enough to eat.
Yashodhara Rana Program Officer, Results for Development
Augustin Flory Managing Director for Nutrition, Results for Development
The food and diets innovation space is ready for a transformation, but innovators and funders lack accessible information and networks, write Results for Development researchers Augustin Flory and Yashodhara Rana.
Before funding for a USAID project disappears, the director of food security and nutrition wants to apply some of the program’s lessons on nutrition-sensitive agriculture to broader food systems.
Officials are increasingly looking to climate data to predict droughts, famines and heat waves and to help plan for – and prevent – the rising rates of moderate and severe malnutrition that have been shown to follow.
A pilot project run by Doctors Without Borders is examining how effectively community health workers can plug gaps in addressing malnutrition, including limited knowledge about its symptoms and a lack of healthcare facilities.
Lucky Iron Fish were supposed to be the answer to reducing Cambodia’s persistent anemia problem. But there are now questions about whether the intervention actually addresses the problem it was intended to help solve.
The country has developed an ambitious plan to tackle overweight and obesity, but has seen some of its efforts derailed by industry objections. Now advocates are pushing for legislation that would codify the plan.
While cash transfers have not delivered on their early promise when it comes to malnutrition, that does not mean they have no role to play, according to Stephen Devereux, the codirector of the Centre for Social Protection.
With traditional nutrition programs failing to correct anemia and other forms of malnutrition, researchers are now exploring what role the microbiome in the gut plays in perpetuating these problems.
Community health workers help reach populations whose members are not accessing nutrition services in traditional healthcare settings. We speak to Saul Guerrero of Action Against Hunger about research done by the humanitarian group that suggests using community health workers in countering acute malnutrition.
Members of Malnutrition Deeply’s expert community share their key takeaways from the recently concluded Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit in Bali.
Iron supplementation has been the traditional response, but experts say there is a need for a wider range of coordinated interventions.
In a bid to address a $70bn resource gap, the charitable foundation Power of Nutrition works with both funders and governments and uses an approach that matches an initial investment – then doubles it.
In our latest episode of Deeply Talks, we explored how a project in Timor Leste is using technology to reduce stunting. David Roach, the cofounder of Catalpa International, spoke to our editors about the project and the lessons he has learned.
A new report from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs offers guidance to the U.S. government on how to effectively foster nutrition security around the world.
New research underscores the fact that malnutrition, while rampant in middle-income countries, is often ignored by donors, leaving those countries to bear the burden of nutrition programs.
The East African country has long prioritized curbing malnutrition, but when the results were coming in too slow, officials decided to evaluate just where its nutrition spending was – and was not – going.
Johan Rockström, the director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and recipient of a European Research Council Advanced Grant talks to Malnutrition Deeply about the big challenges facing the food sector and the way forward for a sustainable future.
The East African country has turned to biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potatoes to help curb vitamin A deficiency, urging people to make the root vegetable a regular part of their diet. The rest of the world is watching.
Recent scientific advances could revolutionize food production, according to the head of Bayer’s crop science division. Seizing those opportunities will take more than technology, though.
Looking out for the interests of smallholder farmers is critical both to tackle climate change and ensure long-term food security, according to Alexandra Brand, the chief sustainability officer for Syngenta.
The nutrition community is focused on consolidating gains made in 2017, while developing new partnerships, spurring new innovations and ensuring no one is left behind.
Nutrition features prominently in the Sustainable Development Goals, but Dr. Jessica Fanzo, one of the experts behind the 2017 Global Nutrition Report, says more work needs to be done to integrate efforts to address malnutrition into other sectors.
Nepal once had the highest rate of stunting in the world. To bring those numbers down, officials first recognized that stunting is not a problem to be solved on its own.
Struggling to find nutritional food to give their children in Kenya’s drought-stricken Rift Valley, villagers defied the taboo against women owning beehives and now produce enough honey to feed and support their families.
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