Abstract
Experience shows that special government efforts are needed to achieve rapid progress in the eradication of hunger, malnutrition and undernutrition. Reviewing how different countries have responded to the food security challenges they face, three main priority areas for public interventions stand out: social protection; raising the net incomes of small-scale agricultural producers; and using special instruments to address nutritional deficiencies in mothers and children under five years of age.
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The first ICN was co-convened by the FAO and the World Health Organization at the FAO Headquarters in December 1992. Representatives from 159 countries and the European Community, 15 United Nations organizations and 144 non-governmental organizations participated. It resulted in the unanimous adoption of the World Declaration on Nutrition and the Plan of Action for Nutrition.
Utilization refers principally to nutrition.
References
FAO (2013) ‘The State of Food and Agriculture: Food systems for better nutrition’, Rome: FAO.
FAO (2014) ‘The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2014’, Rome: FAO.
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I would like to acknowledge the help of Michael Clark, Frederic Deve, Charlotte Dufour, Anna Lartey, Catherine Leclercq, Alia Malik, Dorian Kalamvrezos Navarro and Brian Thompson in the preparation of this article. I am thankful to all of them, but remain solely responsible for any errors that may have remained.
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Outlines main priority areas for public interventions to tackle the challenge of nutrition and highlights the critical importance of a food system approach
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Sundaram, J. Tackling the Nutrition Challenge: A food systems approach. Development 57, 141–146 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2014.63
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