Experts identified on Wednesday several challenges to ensuring healthy diets for all age groups in Bangladesh, including an increase in consumption of healthy foods and a cut in consumption of some processed foods with little nutritional value or anti-nutritive factors. They noted that mere awareness about healthy diet was not sufficient as people consume foods […]
EAT-Lancet Commission Report Launch in Bangladesh
The world faces a pandemic of malnutrition marked by the coexistence of overweight and underweight and a surge of diet-related chronic diseases. Global food production is the single largest driver of environmental degradation and climate instability. The new EAT–Lancet Commission report identifies targets and strategies for achieving a sustainable global food system for healthier diets by 2050—including […]
Healthy Diets to Combat Malnutrition and Climate Change: Shenggen Fan
Shenggen Fan The global food system faces major challenges and trends related to rapid urbanisation, changing diets, climate change, political uncertainties, and anti-globalization sentiments. At the same time, there has been growing recognition that, in addition to addressing multiple burdens of malnutrition, there is an increasing need to seek an environmentally sustainable food system in […]
Bangladesh’s Story of Accelerating Nutrition: Interview with the Speaker of Parliament
Governments must step up to meet deadline to end hunger
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - World governments will need to lift 185,000 people out of hunger each day for the next 12 years in order to meet global goals to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, a United Nations expert said on Wednesday. The calculation was made by Kostas Stamoulis, assistant director-general of the U.N. […]
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