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Nutrition: What Needs To Be Done?
About 805 million people - one in nine people worldwide - remain chronically hungry. Ending hunger and malnutrition requires strong political commitment at the highest level, effective coordination among various ministries and partners, and broad-based social participation. Three policy priorities are crucial to ending malnutrition - expansion of social protection; making smallholder agriculture more nutrition sensitive; and focusing on under-fi ve child and maternal nutrition defi ciencies. An integrated approach is needed to ensure that food consumed is nutritious, wholesome, acceptable, safe and affordable, especially to the poorest and most vulnerable.
The authors would like to acknowledge the help of Michael Clark, Frederic Deve, Alia Malik and Dorian Kalamvrezos Navarro in the preparation of this article. In addition, Charlotte Dufour, Anna Lartey, Catherine Leclercq and Brian Thompson of the Nutrition Division of FAO provided helpful comments and inputs. The authors remain solely responsible for any errors that may have remained.
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