Severe malnutrition in early childhood harms cognitive development.

This survey indicates global malnutrition rates of over 20 per cent and severe acute malnutrition rates of around 4 per cent.

In several countries, including Mali, Mauritania and Niger, vulnerable populations suffered from severe malnutrition.

The pattern of inequality with respect to global malnutrition resembles that of acute poverty, with malnutrition being more severe among the indigenous population and in rural areas.

The issue is not severe and acute malnutrition, which hits populations suddenly, usually as a result of conflict.

Severe malnutrition and the absence of prenatal care during pregnancy put both mother and child at serious risk.

Average malnutrition rates have dropped since last year, from 21.8 per cent to 11.9 per cent this year, with severe malnutrition rates dropping to 1.4 per cent, down from 3.9 per cent in 2004.

In Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, millions of people are facing a severe humanitarian crisis, widespread hunger and chronic malnutrition.

(vi) The violations of economic, social and cultural rights, which have led to severe malnutrition and hardship for the population in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

To combat malnutrition.

That caused widespread, massive crop failures and 60 percent of the country s population is now facing hunger. Unless immediate action is taken, close to 378,000 children are at risk of severe malnutrition.

A. malnutrition and undernutrition

The End of Hunger and Malnutrition

Table 2 Global malnutrition by region ( )

Noting with concern the acute malnutrition that is associated with humanitarian emergency situation and the chronic malnutrition that impedes sustainable development,

Desi likely suffers from undiagnosed malnutrition herself.

Child mortality and malnutrition rates likewise improved.

(v) The violations of economic, social and cultural rights, which have led to severe malnutrition, widespread health problems and other hardship for the population in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inter alia, women, children and the elderly

For every person saved from malnutrition through climate policies, the same money could have saved half a million people from micronutrient malnutrition through direct policies.

Stresses the benefits of food micro algae as a concrete aid in reducing acute malnutrition in food emergencies and chronic malnutrition among severely disadvantaged populations

This year, malnutrition will kill almost four million people.

Solving the malnutrition challenge would be a good start.

Indonesia recognizes the importance of strategies to combat malnutrition.

The Security Council expresses its growing concern over the situation of one million Somalis in a state of humanitarian emergency or suffering from severe livelihood distress and the rising civil and food insecurity in parts of Southern Somalia, where malnutrition levels have increased.

Fighting malnutrition is the first step toward reaching this objective.

Child malnutrition was a major concern for some of them.

We still face extreme poverty, food shortages, hunger and malnutrition.

Indigenous people in particular suffered disproportionately from hunger and malnutrition.

Many millions more suffer from silent hunger malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.

From 1991 until 2003 Iraq underwent hyperinflation, increased poverty and malnutrition.

In Ethiopia, malnutrition has increased in certain parts of the country.

The malnutrition rate and the child mortality rate have been reduced.

Figure 2 Global malnutrition indicators by type of household (1989 2004)

Those factors had resulted in an alarming spread of child malnutrition.

In Africa, children faced armed conflict, poverty, malnutrition, rape and AIDS.

A recent malnutrition survey completed in 1999 had shown that malnutrition rates had fallen significantly from 6 per cent in the early 1990s to the current rate of 1.9 per cent.

Severe Sentences

(f) To take all necessary measures to eradicate hunger, malnutrition and famine

When the malnutrition became unbearable, people began to resort to eating cats.

They still carry the scars of malnutrition, inadequate education and poor health.

Every year, 6 million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday.

Besides the human suffering, the economic costs of malnutrition are huge according to the World Bank, countries where malnutrition is most prevalent lose, on average, between 2 and 3 of their GDP.

Roughly 18,000 children died daily as a direct or indirect consequence of malnutrition.

Any solution to hunger and malnutrition must place such women at its core.

Despite Nepal's determined efforts, children continued to suffer from poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition.