We analyze how the nutrition transition affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that the nutrition transition affects child weight but not child growth, which could be one reason why child underweight decreases faster than child stunting. But these effects have...

"During the first decades of the twentieth century, modern states fighting World War I and II for the first time experimented with feeding--and starving--entire populations. Within the new globalizing economy, food became intimately intertwined with waging war. In Europe, starvation claimed more...

The problem of malnutrition has never been good and the information regarding nutrition would be advantageous particularly in case of Pakistan because significant progress of nutrition awareness at regional level is scarce. The focus of this study is to assess the nutritional believes, practice,...

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2003: Monitoring Progress Towards the World Food Summit and Millenium Goals. By FAO Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization. By C. Ford Runge, Benjamin Senauer, Philip G. Pardey and Mark W. Rosegrant Combating Malnutrition: Time to...