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Legislative approaches to improve nutrition

Legal brief for parliamentarians in Africa No. 6

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 6p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) In sub-Saharan Africa, close to 50 percent of children under five suffer from vitamin A deficiency, 33 percent are stunted, 7 percent are wasted and 5 percent are overweight. Anaemia affects 39 percent of women of reproductive age (15-49), while 20 percent of adult men and 40 percent of adult women in the region are overweight or obese (FAO, 2017). These are all forms of malnutrition. The co-existence of overweight, vitamin deficiency and stunting is common in most countries, and often occur in the same household. This is referred to as the double burden of malnutrition.

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