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national governments and the international development community has been widely
recognized. In 2009 more than 100 organizations came together under the leadership
of David Nabarro, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Food Security
and Nutrition, to draw up a detailed plan to tackle world hunger and malnutrition.
Their efforts led to a report, Scaling Up Nutrition: a framework for action (UNSCN,
2010b), and a ‘road map’ for implementing the report’s recommendations. Both were
presented in September 2010 at the summit meeting the UN General Assembly convened
to assess progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The
document, writes Nabarro in his introduction, “is a consensus document, based on the
thinking and experience of the many individuals and institutions who participated in
the process”. They include representatives of low- and middle-income countries, academic
and research institutions, civil society organizations, the private sector, bilateral
development agencies, United Nations specialized agencies and the World Bank.
The authors of the plan estimate that the package of direct nutrition interventions it
recommends to try to ensure that all people everywhere have access to a healthy and
adequate diet will cost a minimum of US$ 10 billion a year. But such an investment,
they believe, “promises exceptional payoffs in terms of mortality, morbidity, physical
and mental growth, contributions to MDGs, lifetime earnings and overall development.
Indeed, these core interventions offer among the very highest rates of return
feasible in international development”.
Chapter 2 was written by Sue Armstrong, a writer and broadcaster specializing in health
and science issues. She also wrote Boxes 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5. Box 2.6 was written by
Susan Nickalls, a journalist who writes about development issues.
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