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The global impact of malnutrition is enormous and threatening to grow. It is time to highlight this critical issue and bring together the people invested in bringing it to an end.
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The global impact of malnutrition is enormous and threatening to grow. It is time to highlight this critical issue and bring together the people invested in bringing it to an end.
Malnutrition doesn’t begin or end with stunted toddlers. Nearly 800 million people are going hungry – an intergenerational cycle of undernutrition with severe consequences. Solving it requires women’s empowerment.
Emily A. Lynch Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University
Congolese refugees in Rwanda’s Gihembe camp have complained for years that U.N. food rations are making them sick. Emily Lynch, an anthropologist at Marquette University, describes how the refugees cope with hunger and sickness in the first of a two-part story.
Half of the world’s population lives in cities and half of the world suffers from malnutrition. Laurence Haddad, executive director of GAIN, explains that seeing how the two issues are linked will be key to meeting the SDGs on urbanization, hunger and nutrition.
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