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View all search resultsThe high prevalence of stunting in Indonesia has driven the government, in collaboration with the Australian government and Nutrition International, to launch a joint program focusing on the distribution of micronutrients in East Java and East Nusa Tenggara.
The report recommended an increased investment in agriculture to generate faster agricultural and economic growth, improve food security and to enable households to engage in more productive sectors while earning greater income.
The State of the World's Children 2019 report highlights a global shift in children's diets, especially in poorer families, from the often more healthy, traditional ones to highly processed foods and “ultra-processed” foods, which have been characterized with formulations containing little or no whole food and are extremely tasty, highly energy dense and low in essential nutrients.
The word “malnutrition” tends to invoke images of starving children in refugee camps, fleeing conflict or drought in lands faraway. While that image does reflect a reality of hunger, it does not solely define malnutrition nor those who suffer from it.
Tiny Mohammad Sohail cries uncontrollably as he waits to see a doctor -- one of the thousands of Rohingya children at risk of an agonising death from malnutrition even after reaching the safety of refugee camps in Bangladesh.
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