Highlights: Despite significant advancements in reducing global child mortality and malnutrition, a substantial number of children still die due to preventable causes, including undernutrition. Maternal...
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Background Globally, multisectoral coordination for nutrition is needed to tackle multiple determinants of undernutrition and address unacceptably high rates of stunting in young children. Tanzania has strong...
Highlights: Cassava and cattle-meat (beef) yields are declining significantly, while rice yields are on the increase in Nigeria. Dwindling cassava yields are expected to significantly...
Highlights: Maoist insurgency in Nepal increased the average undernourishment probability by 27% and 15% in 2003 and 2011, respectively. Insurgency decreased average household (HH) daily consumption...
Healthy diets have been characterized as responding to four universal principles—nutrient adequacy, dietary diversity, macronutrient balance, and moderation. With rising incomes, diet concerns globally...
Background Unmet minimum dietary diversity (MDD) feeding practices in poor nations place children at high risk of undernutrition and its related effects, which are...
Highlights: Dairy products are highly nutritious, but under-consumed in LMICs. Dairy production and consumption strongly linked to reduced stunting risks in LMICs. Milk is expensive in LMICs...
Key messages: CHAPTER 1 - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 2.1: UNDERNOURISHMENT AND FOOD INSECURITY Hunger in the Arab States reached its highest value in 2022...
Highlights: There is utility in combining large datasets on food systems for nutrition and health policy in LMICs. Decades of Gambian food system data show adequate gross...
The Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia for 2023 – Statistics and Trends provides a comprehensive analysis of Sustainable Development Goal 2, focusing...