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Welcome to the Launch of Malnutrition Deeply
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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- Micronutrient Deficiency
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To Fight Malnutrition, Gallup Is Asking the World What It Eats
There are no data that tell us exactly what people across the world are eating and how that is affecting their health, making it difficult to put together policies to fight malnutrition. A new initiative might help plug this data gap.
- Maternal and Child Health
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In War-Torn Yemen, Controversy Erupts Over Exclusive Breastfeeding
As aid agencies grapple with rising rates of severe acute malnutrition in Yemen, they are encouraging mothers to turn to exclusive breastfeeding – a strategy that has come in for criticism in nearby conflicts.
- Stunting
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Stunting Is a ‘Life Sentence of Underachievement and Underperformance’
Hunger and starvation tend to make for headlines only in crisis situations. But Chicago Council on Global Affairs fellow and journalist Roger Thurow thinks chronic malnutrition has vast implications and demands urgent attention.
- International Relief and Food Crises
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As They Fight Famine, South Sudan’s Women Won’t Wait for Handouts
South Sudan’s deadly civil war and bouts of devastating droughts have left millions of people dependent on food aid. But many of the country’s women farmers are learning new skills to keep their families fed.
- Overweight and Obesity
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Obesity and Malnutrition: Two Sides of One Crisis
Nearly one-third of the world is obese or overweight, leading to a rise in chronic diseases in developing countries. Combating the problem requires funding, innovation and an understanding of the link to undernutrition.
- Maternal and Child Health
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To End Malnutrition, Empower Women, Say Experts
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.
- Innovation
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Liquid Gold: Women in Kenya Find Food Security In Beekeeping
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.
- International Relief and Food Crises
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Congolese Refugees in Rwanda Battle Hunger
Emily A. Lynch
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University
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.
- Wasting
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Why Ending Malnutrition Means Looking at Rapid Urbanization
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.
- Maternal and Child Health
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Better Nutrition for Women and Girls Is Crucial to Achieve the SDGs
Steve Godfrey
Chief Investment Officer, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Steve Godfrey Chief Investment Officer, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
The U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals make up an ambitious new agenda. But Steve Godfrey of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition writes that unless there is investment in improving the nutritional health of women and girls, many of the goals will never be realized.
- Micronutrient Deficiency
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How Fortified Foods Can Tackle Hidden Hunger
Some 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient malnutrition, with consequences that include cognitive delays, weakened immunity and increased risk for birth defects. Food fortification is one low-cost solution – and it’s already working.
- Maternal and Child Health
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Why More Mothers Don’t Breastfeed Their Babies
From barely regulated marketing to a lack of healthcare services, there are many factors that make it difficult for mothers in developing countries to breastfeed their babies. The solution, say experts, requires more than just saying “breast is best.”
- Stunting
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Cooking the Colors of India’s Flag to Fight Malnutrition
In a region of India that suffers widespread malnutrition, women are turning to the “tricolor” method of cooking – making sure each meal contains food that is saffron, white and green.