Scaling Up Nutrition

Action against malnutrition is needed more than ever. An additional US$10.3 billion a year is required from public resources to mount a successful attack against undernutrition on a worldwide scale. This would benefit over 360 million children in the 36 countries with the highest burden of undernutritionhome to 90 percent of the stunted children worldwideand prevent 1.1 million child deaths. Since early childhood offers a special window of opportunity to improve nutrition, the bulk of the invest