Undernutrition in early life is responsible for the deaths of millions of young children annually, it reduces the amount of schooling children attain and increases the likelihood of their being poor as adults, if they survive. The human and economic costs are enormous, and yet the rate of undernutrition reduction remains glacial. While research tells us what interventions work to address undernutrition, scaling up is not happening quickly enough.
An umbrella organization for women’s self-help groups has launched a new initiative that aims to build peace networks by engaging communities in communal, income-generating ... Read more »