On November 30th, 2021 the Micronutrient Forum, alongside the WHO, UNICEF, BMGF, and CIFF, hosted Powering Women – Promising Futures, an official side-event at the Nutrition for Growth Summit. As reflected in the short highlight video, women, maternal, and girls’ nutrition is not simply a matter of poverty- it is also born from inequity. Millions
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Micronutrient malnutrition is silent and invisible. Its impacts, on the other hand, are not. Micronutrient malnutrition has serious consequences, contributing to poor health outcomes, increasing child mortality, lowering immunity and resistance to disease, reducing human potential and productivity. Yet, globally, more than three billion people do not have healthy and nutritious diets. Prior to the pandemic, at
As climate change alters ecosystems with adverse consequences for food systems and vulnerable communities in particular, decades of progress in reducing global levels of malnutrition stand to be lost. Nutrition challenges, already exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, faced by millions of mothers and their children are likely to only further deepen. Science is shedding light
Hungry for change: food systems for nutrition and health Free Virtual Event on 9-10 November 2021 from 8:00-11:00 pm JST | 11:00-2:00 GMT | 6:00-9:00 am EST On November 9 from 11:30 AM-11:45 AM GMT, Saskia Osendarp. Micronutrient Forum Executive Director will share an overview of global undernutrition and EmornUdomkesmalee, Senior Advisor Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, will present
As a part of the Duke Sanford World Food Policy Center’s series, this podcast features Dr. Saskia Osendarp, Executive Director of Micronutrient Forum and Co-convenor of Standing Together for Nutrition. She discusses how COVID-19 is having a far-reaching impact on the food system and malnutrition among mothers and children in particular leading to poor health
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