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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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Welcome to the archives of Malnutrition Deeply. While we paused regular publication of the site on September 1, 2018, we are happy to serve as an ongoing public resource on malnutrition. We hope you’ll enjoy the reporting and analysis that was produced by our dedicated community of editors and contributors.
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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.
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.
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.
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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