Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development

Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first MDGto halve poverty and hungerbut to meet other goals in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, education, and gender equity. The choice is now between continuing to fail, or to finally make nutrition central to development. Underweight prevalence among children is the key indicator for measuring progress on non-income poverty and malnutrition remains the world's most serious health problem and the single bigg