The nutrition crisis
December 23, 2014
Malnutrition, micronutrient deficiency and obesity
The first Global Nutrition Report published recently by the International Food Policy Research Institute has brought out some startling facts on nutrition worldwide. A growing world economy has resulted in poverty being reduced worldwide. But the prevalence of undernourishment – a person eating too few calories to sustain an active life – has in fact fallen only by half the speed of poverty reduction.