Increased Nutrition Education Will Help Some Communities Overcome Taboos, Traditional Beliefs To Curb Child Stunting, TRF Reports

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Better baby food: changing African mindsets on eggs, grandmas, motherhood
“…The new U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, replacing the MDGs, include ending malnutrition by 2030 and cutting stunting — children being short for their age — by 40 percent by 2025. … Solving the problem, which affects one in three people in the world, requires better diets — and changes to some deep-rooted beliefs…” (Migiro, 9/15).

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