Tuesday is World Food Day and – given that world food prices are once again making the headlines, it seems timely to be assessing the state of undernutrition in the world. But it's also depressing to see a topic returning to the media front pages that should never have gone away.
As David McNair blogged last week on Save the Children research (see also) "high and volatile prices are the new normal" and we shouldn't allow the recent spikes in 2008, 2010 and this year to detract from both the constant urgency required to address global food security and undernutrition; and the longer term measures and understanding needed to ensure a century not as scarred by undernutrition and famine as the last.
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