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Fighting
malnutrition
is the first step toward reaching this objective.
Not only do they need to make the fight against
malnutrition
a policy priority; they also must invest.
Traumatized populations have fled to refugee camps in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger, where
malnutrition
and disease are becoming increasingly prevalent – especially among children.
South Asia has the world’s highest rates of
malnutrition
and the largest number of undernourished children, who have higher mortality rates, lower cognitive performance, and a greater likelihood of dropping out of school.
Similarly, we should focus on at least halving malnutrition, because there is robust evidence that proper nutrition for young children leads to a lifetime of large benefits – better brain development, improved academic performance, and ultimately higher productivity as adults.
But the UN draft says that we should “end malnutrition,” and the economists warn that while such an absolute goal sounds alluring, it is likely both implausibly optimistic and inefficient.
It is ironic that in a world where childhood
malnutrition
plagues many developing countries, childhood obesity has become one of the leading health scourges in advanced economies.
By investing not only in systems to provide clean drinking water and sanitation, but also in educational programs that encourage better hygiene practices and toilet use, governments can break a vicious cycle of diarrhea and
malnutrition
that causes irreversible physical and cognitive damage.
At the same time, developing countries have continued to grapple with the persistence of mass poverty, endemic disease, malnutrition, environmental degradation, and gross income inequity, all of which have caused a degree of human suffering that far exceeds what has been caused by terrorist attacks.
Severe
malnutrition
in early childhood harms cognitive development.
But improved access to education must go hand in hand with strategies to combat child
malnutrition
and poor health.
This is why, over the centuries, poor living conditions, malnutrition, and diabetes always accompanied TB outbreaks.
Moreover, women’s financial inclusion helps combat social marginalization and improves family wellbeing; when mothers have a degree of control over household finances, their children are less likely to die from
malnutrition
and more likely to thrive.
The humanitarian situation is already dire for 60% of Yemen’s 30 million inhabitants: an estimated seven million people could be close to famine; and almost 500,000 children are at risk of severe
malnutrition.
Stunted growth due to
malnutrition
affects one in four children under the age of five.
Malnutrition
in all of its forms reduces global economic welfare by about 5% annually, through foregone output and additional costs incurred.
Even before the recent food price spikes, an estimated billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food-insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world’s population.
Roughly 18,000 children died daily as a direct or indirect consequence of
malnutrition.
Progress in reducing child
malnutrition
has also been modest, with almost one-third of South Asia’s children underweight in 2010.
Confronted by multiple charges of corruption against his government, the prime minister’s address to the nation partly sought to divert attention from the scandals by focusing, bizarrely, on a litany of other problems, from high inflation and the Naxalite rebellion to persistent
malnutrition
and terrorist attacks.
UNICEF estimates that almost 1.4 million children are already at imminent risk of death from severe acute malnutrition, and urges concerted action to save them.
Yes, that’s right: one in three people worldwide suffer from malnutrition, and it does not always look the way one might expect.
From the two billion adults who carry too much weight to the 159 million children with stunted growth,
malnutrition
takes many forms.
West Africa is home to some of the world’s highest rates of
malnutrition.
But West Africa also suffers from many other forms of
malnutrition.
Perhaps the least obvious face of
malnutrition
is not undernutrition, but excessive weight and obesity.
The 2016 Global Nutrition Report estimates that, across Africa,
malnutrition
results in a loss of 11% of GDP – more than the annual losses brought about by the 2008-2010 global financial crisis.
The imperative to tackle
malnutrition
could not be clearer.
But other countries have hardly made a dent in the
malnutrition
problem.
The notion that poverty is more than a question of relieving immediate needs applies even to rich countries where
malnutrition
and other basic material deprivations are nearly eradicated.
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