Sight and Life Magazine 1/2011

62ewsFourth AfricaNutritional EpidemiologyConference (ANEC 4)Nutrition and Food Security:Successes and Emerging ChallengesMaffo Tazoho GhislainUniversity of Dschang, CameroonLast year, courtesy of Sight and Life, I attended the Fourth AfricaNutritional Epidemiology Conference (ANEC 4) on Nutrition andFood Security: Successes and Emerging Challenges. The five-dayevent took place from October 4 – 8, 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya andprovided me with an excellent opportunity to share, learn andnetwork.security, food availability, food access, food use, food safety,food quality, and food utilization.The evidence of the impact of food on health and human productivityis well established in infants and young children, andscientific data shows the impact of malnutrition on infant andyoung children’s growth. Given the complexity of food security,nutritionists, food scientists and healthcare workers must worktogether to fight malnutrition in developing countries.Adequate nutrition is key to healthand general well-beingIn recent decades, nutritional science has clearly demonstratedthe importance of nutrition for health and general well-being.Adequate nutrition means when people have access to, and consumeenough, food which their body is then able to absorb tomeet all its nutritional requirements. It is a combination of food“ANEC 4 was an importantopportunity for researchers to discussthe best strategy for overcomingmalnutrition in Africaand other developing regions”Maffo Tazoho Gislain in front of his poster at the Fourth AfricaNutritional Epidemiology Conference (ANEC), held in Nairobi,Kenya in October 2010