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SCN News No 14 - Meeting the Nutrition Challenge

UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Published in : 1997

Available in : English

The focus of this issue of SCN News is on the nutrition challenge in the 21st century. New estimates of trends in malnutrition show some improvement worldwide, but at a substantially slower rate in the last few years than in the 1980s. This slowdown is cause for concern. It means that while the end of hunger and malnutrition had been coming into sight in the distant future, this prospect is now receding again. Goals from the World Summit for Children of 1990, and the International Conference on Nutrition of 1992, of halving the prevalence of malnutrition between 1990 and 2000, are becoming even less likely to be met as the decade goes on. More than ever, further action is needed.

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Themes: Breastfeeding, general, Diet and lifestyle, general, Household Food Security and community nutrition, general, Interventions, general, Micronutrients, general, Nutrition and health/disease, general, Nutrition assessments and M&E, general, Nutrition planning, policy and programme, general, Overnutrition, general, Undernutrition, general, Vulnerable groups, general, Breastfeeding counseling, Breastfeeding counseling, Deworming, Diet related chronic disease, Double burden of malnutrition, Double burden of malnutrition, Growth standards, Iodine / IDD, Multi-sectoral, Nutrition transition, Nutrition transition, Nutrition transition, Nutritional requirements, Nutritional requirements , Poverty, Programmes, School feeding, School feeding, Socio-economic, Underweight, Vitamin A / Night blindness, Women and girls