FOOD AND NUTRITION

Hunger and malnutrition in their different forms contribute to about half of the deaths of young children, more than 20 million children suffer from severe malnutrition, 150 million are underweight and 350 million women suffer from nutritional anaemia. Improved nutrition requires(a) adequate household food security, (b) healthy environment and control of infections and (c) adequate maternal and child care. With the right political priority, the world is now in a position to feed all the world’s children and to overcome the worst forms of malnutrition, I,e drastically to reduce diseases that contribute to malnutrition.