{"id":10185,"date":"2017-12-14T03:32:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T09:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2019-07-12T09:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:02:27","slug":"how-will-you-innovate-to-feed-the-world-investing-in-nutrition-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instapro.spinuhost.com\/en\/blog\/nutritionandtechnologies\/how-will-you-innovate-to-feed-the-world-investing-in-nutrition-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"How will you innovate to feed the world? – Investing in Nutrition Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coincidentally, I spent World Children\u2019s Day (November 20th<\/sup>) reading the Global Nutrition Report<\/a>. The report discusses the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 2.2 which aims to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030. As a result of this initiative, SDGs were adopted by 193 countries in 2015.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, nutrition statistics state that 815 million people are hungry this year, up from 777 million two years ago. What\u2019s new is our deeper understanding of (mal)nutrition issues: nutrition action is not a separate box to be left only to nutritionists (remember the saying that \u2018war is too important to be left to generals\u2019). Action on nutrition is needed to achieve goals across the 17 SDGs and, in turn, action on all the SDGs is needed to stop malnutrition.<\/p>\n

Malnutrition has adverse effects – take the term \u2018stunting\u2019, a standard measure of malnutrition. Stunting does not just mean \u2018short size\u2019. Stunting means that brain development is disrupted, too. It\u2019s brain development, folks, that builds futures and economies and a better life for everyone. Healthy diets mean improved performance at school. Children not affected by stunting early in their life have better results in cognitive assessments and activity level.<\/p>\n

Consider this:<\/p>\n