micronutrients

OPINION: Now Is the Time to Tackle Malnutrition and Its Massive Human Costs

By José Graziano da Silva and Margaret Chan
The scourge of malnutrition affects the most vulnerable in society, and it hurts most in the earliest stages of life. Today, more than 800 million people are chronically hungry, about 11 percent of the global population.

Why Our Food Systems Need to Be More Nutrition-Smart

By Howarth Bouis
“We are especially distressed by the high prevalence and increasing numbers of malnourished children under five years of age in parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. Moreover, more than 2000 million people, mostly women and children, are deficient in one or more micronutrients...”


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