UN official urges rich nations’ leaders to help end child malnutrition
27 APRIL 2010 | NEW YORK – The head of the United Nations food agency today urged leaders of the Group of 8 (G8) industrialized nations to make combating child malnutrition a pillar of the their summit in Canada in June, saying poor nutrition is responsible for the death of 3.5 million children every year
“No issue is more urgent, or more foundational to other development goals, than getting maternal and child nutrition right,” Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, said in an op-ed published in the Toronto Star.