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

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

Wednesday 15 February 2012

A quarter of young children around the world are not getting enough nutrients to grow properly, and 300 die of malnutrition every hour, according to a new report that lays bare the effects of the global food crisis.

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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