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9.3.6 Summing up
Adding nutrition objectives to dairy-industry development certainly introduces
additional complications – new objectives, new measurements, potential conflicts,
more complexity in programme design, time needed to confirm results. In an era
when development investment is in short supply, dominated by emergency funding
and crisis response, this is a challenge not to be taken lightly. But it is not an
impossible task; some projects have already managed to combine crop or livestock
production with nutrition. Some 870 million people continue to be chronically
undernourished and a further billion are eating unbalanced diets, with all of the
associated financial costs and diminution of human well-being. It makes no sense
to act as if agriculture and nutrition were separate, and this means setting out to
build programmes that explicitly link the two – as endorsed by the Zero Hunger
Challenge by the Secretary General of the United Nations.
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