Question: Hi i was just woundering has there been, in the last 10 years any advancements in the field of counter scting malnutrition?
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Plant scientists around the globe are continually looking at ways to improve crop productivity and quality. Many countries which have been traditionally undernourished are developing technologies and farming practices to improve productivity through better growth or better tolerance to disease. There is a long way to go, but breeding, GM and better farming practices (through education) is really making a difference across the globe.
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Hey @forensicgirl,
Continuous improvements in animal and plant production helps us to produce food more efficiently, and can therefore help us feed more people. Having a greater understanding of nutritional requirements throughout all stages of our life also helps to counteract malnutrition – for example, a better understanding of the types and amounts of minerals we need for bone development and strength, or how many calories we need to consume a day to maintain a healthy weight. All of the information for this comes from science.
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Yes, because an estimated 2 billion people globally suffer from the effects of micro-nutrient deficiencies, micro-nutrient supplementation and food fortification have been ranked as the top development investments by the Copenhagen Consensus.
There are hundreds of research and application programs running in this area. I’ll just highlight a few to give you a feel.
GAIN: Created in 2002 under the aegis of the United Nations, GAIN is an organization that was granted special international status in 2010 by the Swiss Federal Council for its actions in fighting malnutrition.
WFP: The first two years of a child’s life are the window of opportunity to prevent early childhood undernutrition that causes largely irreversible damage. World Food Program (WFP) focuses on this phase of life for providing essential nutrients including vitamins and minerals. This year, Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger around the world, signed an Agreement extending their existing partnership for three years (to 2015) to combat hidden hunger and malnutrition in the developing world.
HarvestPlus: It is a global program that improves nutrition and public health through biofortified staple foods. Development and delivery of iron-rich beans and many other crops is led by HarvestPlus and its partners.
Grand Challenges in Global Health: This initiative fosters scientific and technological innovation to solve key health problems in the developing world and many advances have been made because of funding under this program and golden rice is one example.
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looks like the others have that one
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