Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development : A Strategy for Large Scale Action

Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first Millennium Development Goals-to halve poverty and hunger-but to meet other goals in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, education, and gender equity. The choice is now between continuing to fail, or to finally make nutrition central to development. Underweight prevalence among children is the key indicator for measuring progress on non-income poverty and malnutrition remains the world's most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child mortality. Nearly a third of children in the developing world are either underweight or stunted, and more than 30 percent of the developing world's population suffers from micronutrient deficiencies. There are also new dimensions to malnutrition. The epidemic of obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases is spreading to the developing world and malnutrition is also linked to the growing HIV/AIDS pandemic. This report makes the case for development partners and developing countries to focus on nutrition, and to fund nutrition investments much more heavily than has been the case in the past. This case is based on evidence that such programs are excellent economic investments and essential for faster progress in reducing poverty; and on program experience showing that they can improve nutrition much faster than relying on economic growth alone. The report sets out a global strategy for stepped-up action in nutrition, for discussion in the international development community.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2006
Subjects:	ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES, AGED, AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES, AGRICULTURE, ANEMIA, BASIC HEALTH, BASIC HEALTH SERVICES, BIRTH SPACING, BLINDNESS, BREASTFEEDING, BREASTFEEDING PROMOTION, CDD, CHILD CARE, CHILD CARE PROGRAMS, CHILD DEATHS, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CHILD GROWTH, CHILD HEALTH SERVICES, CHILD MALNUTRITION, CHILD MORTALITY, CHILD SURVIVAL, CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES, COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING, CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS, CONGENITAL ANOMALIES, CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, DIABETES, DIARRHEA, DIET, DIETARY ENERGY, DIETARY ENERGY SUPPLY, DIETS, DISEASES, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY, ESSENTIAL NUTRITION ACTIONS, EXTREME POVERTY, FAMILIES, FAMINE, FOOD AID, FOOD INSECURITY, FOOD POLICIES, FOOD POLICY, FOOD PRODUCTION, FOOD SECURITY, FOOD SUMMIT, GAMBIA, GOITER, GROWTH, GROWTH PROMOTION, HEALTH CARE, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, HOSPITALS, HOUSEHOLDS, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS, HUNGER, HYGIENE, HYPOTHYROIDISM, IDD, IMCI, IMMUNE SYSTEM, IMMUNIZATION, INADEQUATE FOOD, INADEQUATE FOOD INTAKE, INCOME GROWTH, INCOME POVERTY, INCOME QUINTILE, INFANT FEEDING, INFANTS, INFECTION, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, INTERVENTION, IODINE, IODINE DEFICIENCY, IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDERS, IODINE SUPPLEMENTATION, IRON, IRON DEFICIENCY, LOW BIRTHWEIGHT, MALARIA, MALNOURISHED CHILDREN, MALNUTRITION, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES, MICRONUTRIENT FORTIFICATION, MICRONUTRIENT MALNUTRITION, MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION, MICRONUTRIENTS, MIGRATION, MILK, MONITORING, MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, NURSING, NUTRITION, NUTRITION EDUCATION, NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS, NUTRITION POLICIES, NUTRITION PROGRAMS, NUTRITION SERVICES, NUTRITION STATUS, OBESITY, PARASITES, PEM, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, PHYSICAL GROWTH, POOR COUNTRIES, POOR HEALTH, POOR NUTRITION, POOR PEOPLE, POORER PEOPLE, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY REDUCTION EFFORTS, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPERS, POVERTY TARGET, PREGNANCY, PREGNANT WOMEN, PRENATAL CARE, PRESCHOOL CHILDREN, PREVALENCE OF MALNUTRITION, PRODUCTIVITY, PROGNOSIS, PROTEIN, RURAL LIVELIHOODS, SAFETY NET, SAFETY NET PROGRAMS, SANITATION, SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS, SCHOOLING, SERIOUS MALNUTRITION, SEVERE MALNUTRITION, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, SNACKS, SOCIAL PROTECTION, STARVATION, STUNTED CHILDREN, STUNTING, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE POVERTY REDUCTION, THE, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, UNDERNUTRITION, UNDERWEIGHT CHILDREN, VEGETABLES, VITAMIN A, VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY, VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTATION, VITAMINS, VULNERABLE GROUPS, WASTING, WORLD FOOD PROGRAM,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/11/6501911/repositioning-nutrition-central-development-strategy-large-scale-action https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7409
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