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Exploring why 52 million children each year suffer from wasting and how we can change that
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Ritwik Shukla Research Associate, Accountability Initiative
This crosspost from the Accountability Initiative, a research group based at the Centre of Policy Research, uses data to unpack efforts to address malnutrition – part of a broader series on social welfare gains and failures.
Malnutrition Deeply asked nutrition experts and practitioners about the history of U.S. opposition to breastfeeding and how the lessons from the WHA will help guide their future approach to this issue.
Through their efforts to immunize livestock and introduce new, more productive breeds, veterinarians with Veterinaries Sans Frontieres Germany are working to prevent South Sudan from descending into famine. Malnutrition Deeply spoke to Silvester Okoth, the country director.
Through an app, Chowberry, local groups can identify food that is close to its expiration date at nearby grocery stores. They can purchase this food for a reduced price and distribute it to people who might otherwise not get enough to eat.
Officials are increasingly looking to climate data to predict droughts, famines and heat waves and to help plan for – and prevent – the rising rates of moderate and severe malnutrition that have been shown to follow.
A pilot project run by Doctors Without Borders is examining how effectively community health workers can plug gaps in addressing malnutrition, including limited knowledge about its symptoms and a lack of healthcare facilities.
Gerda Verburg, coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement, also said there is an important role for the private sector to play in global efforts to end malnutrition, although the companies must adhere to international standards.
Maaike Arts, a nutrition specialist with UNICEF, explains why low- and middle-income countries have higher rates of breastfeeding and what policies might be introduced to encourage the practice in the developed world.
This year’s Access to Nutrition Index was a mixed bag, showing some progress in the approach major food and beverage corporations take toward nutrition, but significant remaining gaps.
On the coast of Senegal, fish stocks have fallen by 80 percent in the past year alone. The women fish processors of the region have been hit hardest, with worrying consequences for food security and nutrition.
While cash transfers have not delivered on their early promise when it comes to malnutrition, that does not mean they have no role to play, according to Stephen Devereux, the codirector of the Centre for Social Protection.
Community health workers help reach populations whose members are not accessing nutrition services in traditional healthcare settings. We speak to Saul Guerrero of Action Against Hunger about research done by the humanitarian group that suggests using community health workers in countering acute malnutrition.
It is clear that cash transfers alone will not end acute or chronic malnutrition, leaving researchers to examine how they can be effectively integrated as part of a larger response.
In the third episode of our Deeply Talks, World Bank’s Meera Shekar joined us to discuss the progress made by the Investment Framework for Nutrition.
Efforts to meet nutrition needs with eggs have run afoul of some lunch providers who say including the food would violate their cultural beliefs.
Save the Children is calling for a tripling of global nutrition funding from previous targets set by the World Bank. The new model would integrate nutrition-sensitive initiatives.
A comprehensive nutrition response has been stalled by a lack of data on the scale of the problem and ongoing political crises in Colombia that are dominating that government’s agenda.
A persistent lack of awareness about the dangers of malnutrition among patients is contributing to higher mortality rates and longer hospital stays.
New research underscores the fact that malnutrition, while rampant in middle-income countries, is often ignored by donors, leaving those countries to bear the burden of nutrition programs.
As the Venezuelan government blocks international aid, one agency estimates 280,000 child deaths this year could be linked to malnutrition.
Members of Malnutrition Deeply’s expert community weigh in on how they can leverage local and regional networks to advance the nutrition agenda.
To encourage exclusive breastfeeding, Egyptian officials are limiting access to subsidized formula. But some mothers say the government has gone too far in restricting their choice.
Botswana has ambitious plans to address high rates of stunting and other forms of undernutrition among children. Those efforts are being hurt by a lack of information on who needs the services, according to nutrition officials.
India is not a signatory to international refugee conventions, which it is using as a cover to prevent Rohingya from accessing programs that would help them with food and healthcare.
The nutrition community is focused on consolidating gains made in 2017, while developing new partnerships, spurring new innovations and ensuring no one is left behind.
Samuel Hall Research Team Independent Think Tank
Ashley Hamer Journalist and Photographer reporting on East Africa
With 17 million people crippled by drought in the Horn of Africa, Samuel Hall researchers and photographer Ashley Hamer explain the realities of climate-induced displacement in Somalia on World Refugee Day.
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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