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The global nutrition landscape: Assessing progress

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International Food Policy Research Institute

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

repec: research papers in economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2499/9780896295841_02

Subject(s) - geography , environmental resource management , environmental planning , environmental science

AS DISCUSSED IN CHAPTER 1, SETTING TARGETS IS ONE MANIFESTATION OF POLITICAL COMMITMENT. COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY MADE A SERIES OF COMMITMENTS TO ATTAIN global nutrition targets by 2025 (Panel 2.1). For maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, the 2012 World Health Assembly (WHA) set six targets for 2025. The Global Nutrition Report tracks five of these.1 The WHA also agreed on nine noncommunicable disease (NCD) targets, one of which—“Halt the rise in diabetes and obesity”—is tracked in this report via three indicators. In all, we use eight nutrition status indicators to track six of the targets.Book chapterPRIFPRI1; CRP4; B Promoting healthy food systemsA4NH; PHNDCGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH

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