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Malnutrition

In this lecture, Professor Jeffrey Sachs looks at malnutrition as undernutrition and as obesity, focusing on the adverse effects it has on individual health as well as regional development. This…

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Nutrition and Health

Malnutrition is a major issue worldwide, especially in children, and has cognitive as well as physical effects. There are a few measures of malnutrition: stunting is a measure of height for age in…

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What is Food Security?

This chapter discusses food security and how food security is measured, who is food insecure and where they are located, as well as progress to date on addressing the issues. In 1996, there was a…

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Global Challenges Around Food

The first big challenge that the world suffers from is malnutrition, which means that people eat a diet that contains too few or too many nutrients: at this point, 800 million people suffer from…

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