€143 per person per year can end chronic hunger globally

Commission, UK and Gates Foundation put big nutrition cash on table

05-Jun-2015

By Annie Harrison-Dunn

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged €689m to help tackle malnutrition as the European Commission announced €23.5m for a new nutrition initiative and €3.5bn by 2020.

The Lancet: Better nutrition requires better political economy understanding

05-Jan-2015

By Shane STARLING

Improving global nutrition won’t be achieved unless, “the roles of politics, economics, and institutions” can be better understood, The Lancet has reported.

Double burden: Poor diet links obese mothers and stunted children

17-Dec-2014

By Nathan Gray

Obesity and malnutrition are often thought of as problems at opposite ends of the nutrition spectrum, but new research has linked diet quality with obesity in mothers and stunted children.

€143 per person per year can end chronic hunger globally

€143 (US$160) directed to people living in extreme poverty over a year can end world hunger in 15 years, the United Nations (UN) has said.

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