Great article from The New Food Economy summary of key findings from Unicef's 2019 State of the World's Children report. The article touches on the need for sound policy that prioritises child and maternal nutrition, including rethinking taxes, subsidies and regulations to help encourage production, marketing and consumption of foods that support healthy diets. Promoting good nutrition and healthy diets is key to to combating multiple forms of malnutrition: undernutrition (wasting, stunting), hidden hunger (vitamin and nutrient deficiencies) and overweight/obesity. To do this, without exacerbating environmental degradation, requires collective action from all sectors.
Read the full story here: By 2025, 43 million children under the age of five will be overweight