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In a recent analysis of 1.27 million children in 44 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), authors Derek Headey and Marie Ruel, former leaders of the CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT), show that exposure to food inflation in the womb and the first two years of life is associated with increased risks of wasting and delay in child growth.
New evidence shows food price crisis threatens to deepen undernutrition in young children in low- and middle-income countries
Source of original article: International Potato Center (cipotato.org).
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