against undernutrition will be tracked by using this new standard. The use of the new reference standard will result in clear … changes in the prevalence and composition of undernutrition. This paper argues that this opportunity should be used to use … fight against hunger. All weight based anthropometric measures, such as underweight and wasting, suffer from the fact that …

challenge, the food price spikes also have created a unique opportunity to address poverty and hunger. …For decades, despite widespread hunger and severe malnutrition in developing countries there was little attention to … funding for it, while global malnutrition has not increased and poverty declined over the past years. Mass media played a …