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Scientists have irrefutable evidence that malnutrition, which affects one in three people, increases the risk of disease and death and reduces productivity and socioeconomic development. Can they also point to proven interventions to help?
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Opinions and Analysis
Cuba: Gender and geography influence childhood obesity
Being a girl, or growing up in an urban setting, are factors conducive to unhealthy childhood weight gain in Cuba, says Manuel Hernández-Triana.
Urgent action needed to tackle malnutrition
Science can help design strategies to tackle malnutrition. The challenge is turning this knowledge into action.
Policy Briefs
Improving early childhood nutrition
Nutritional interventions can improve health, save lives and boost economic growth but only if implemented before the age of two.
20 January 2010
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Source: International Food Policy Research Institute
Tackling malnutrition with traditional knowledge
Traditional knowledge can inform strategies for improving nutrition and help vulnerable populations cope with environmental change.
20 January 2010
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Source: UN Standing Committee on Nutrition
News and Features
The challenge of improving nutrition: facts and figures
A healthy diet is more than just calories. Priya Shetty gets the figures on the cost of poor nutrition — and the scale of the challenge.
Can GM crops feed the hungry?
GM crops were supposed to rescue the world's one billion undernourished people. Carol Campbell discusses whether they will ever curb hunger.
