Many are malnourished or hungry.

The majority of the world s malnourished children live in India.

In 2007, 20.4 of children under the age of five were malnourished.

South Asia has the world s highest rates of malnutrition and the largest number of undernourished children, who have higher mortality rates, lower cognitive performance, and a greater likelihood of dropping out of school.

One figure for that 54 percent of the children under the age of five years suffer from malnutrition.

This reduction in the standard food ration has already contributed to the high malnutrition rates in parts of the country and the shortage of therapeutic and supplementary food has prevented an adequate response to the increasing number of malnourished children and women.

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To combat malnutrition.

As mass starvation set in, ever greater violence had to be inflicted in order to coerce malnourished people to labor in the fields.

Despite the strides made recently against malnutrition, millions more people will be undernourished than would have been the case in the absence of official support for biofuels.

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

Most of the deaths were from communicable diseases, which malnourished people may well have contracted after crowding into feeding centers.

Undernourished children are more susceptible to illness.

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

Indonesia recognizes the importance of strategies to combat malnutrition.

We concluded that there would be high benefits from providing micronutrients particularly vitamin A and zinc to undernourished children in South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa.

Providing Vitamin A and zinc to 80 of the 140 million or so undernourished children in the world would require a commitment of just 60 million annually.

A malnourished refugee during the Nigerian Civil War.

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

Even before 2000, the World Food Summit, held in Rome in 1996, pledged to halve the numberof undernourished people by 2015.

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

Child mortality and malnutrition rates likewise improved.

For example, they call for reducing by 2015 the proportion of the world s population that was chronically under nourished in 1990, and for cutting the child mortality rate by three quarters.

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

For starters, it would be a world in which people live free from conflict over land, water, and space, and that ensures food security for the 739 million people who are hungry or malnourished today.

Many people with health problems have other problems as well whether caused by or causing their ill health.

Solving the malnutrition challenge would be a good start.

Fighting malnutrition is the first step toward reaching this objective.

Family life is, moreover, very difficult for women.

Indigenous people in particular suffered disproportionately from hunger and malnutrition.

49. Also recognizes that countries struggle to develop when their children grow up malnourished, poorly educated or ravaged by disease, as these factors can perpetuate the generational cycle of poverty

In partnership with donors and its subregional neighbours, it had focused on children suffering from malnutrition, street children, those who had undergone genital mutilation, and those with HIV AIDS.

The first claim unit is for costs of medical treatment and economic losses resulting from an increase in the incidence of low birth weight infants and malnourished children in Jordan as a result of the influx of the refugees into Jordan.

22. The Committee expresses its deep concern about the high rate of children under 5 that are chronically malnourished (45 per cent according to government statistics), as well as the high incidence of poverty related diseases.

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

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

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.

Jordan contends that the increases in low birth weight infants and malnourished children would not have occurred but for the increase in its population caused by the influx of refugees into the country, which was a direct result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

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It is caused by imbalanced nutrition or a lack of vitamins and essential minerals that enable the human body to grow and that maintain its vital functions.

This year, malnutrition will kill almost four million people.

The single most important investment, according to the panel, would step up the fight against malnutrition.

In Toliara in southern Madagascar, a school lunch project is helping to fight the problems of chronic malnutrition.

To date, starvation has claimed the lives of more than 50 people in the town.

At the time of entry, 70 of enrollees were malnourished and poorly clothed.