Wednesday, February 15, 2012

[biofuelwatch] Save the Children report on rising malnutrition and impoverishment

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Save the Children's press release and link to report are at http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/news-and-comment/news/2012-02/new-research-exposes-hidden-global-malnutrition-crisis.  For more current media coverage see http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/


The Independent

Special report: The hungry generation

One young child in four around the world is too malnourished to grow properly, a major new investigation reveals

There are 170 million children aged under five whose development has been stunted by malnutrition because of lack of food for them and their breastfeeding mothers, and the situation is getting significantly worse, according to research by the charity Save the Children...


Over the past five years the price of food has soared across the globe, thanks to extreme weather conditions, diverting farmland to grow biofuels, speculative trading of food commodities and the global financial crisis. The poor, who spend the bulk of their income on food, are hit hardest.
One in four parents in the countries surveyed have been forced to cut back on food for their families. One in six have had children skip school to help their parents at work.
In India, half of all children are stunted from malnutrition with a quarter often going without food entirely.


Excerpts.  Rread more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/special-report-the-hungry-generation-6917533.html




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