Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition: A Survival and Development Priority

United Nations Children's Fund Unicef

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Abstract: This report contains nutrition profiles for 24 countries. This report shows that an estimated 195 million children under age 5 in developing countries suffer from stunting, a consequence of chronic nutritional deprivation that begins in the period before birth if the mother is undernourished. Global commitments on food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture are part of a wider international agenda that will help address the critical issues raised in this report.

Keywords: child; maternal; nutrition; malnutrition; development; survival; food security; stunting; wasting; undernourished; causes of undernutrition; Poverty; nutrition programming; Low birthweight; Supplementary feeding; Overweight; importance of nutrition; nutrition interventions; child survival. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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