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Health: The challenge of improving nutrition

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Priced out of nutrition

The economic crisis is increasing global hunger — nutritional interventions are desperately needed

Food safety matters

Food safety is just as important as food availability when it comes to improving nutrition

Vital vitamins

Governments must act on studies that confirm micronutrients help fight disease

Nutrition: facts and figures

The facts and figures on failing food: malnutrition reaches far wider than simple starvation

A genetic fix for malnutrition?

How can nutrigenomics — the study of how genes and nutrients interact — be used to improve nutrition?

Improving early nutrition

Nutritional interventions must target under two-year-olds to boost economic growth

Hidden hunger

Rising levels of carbon dioxide will decrease the nutritional value of major cereal crops

Traditional nutrition

Traditional knowledge could help vulnerable populations improve nutrition and adapt to environmental change