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Conserving indigenous food resources can reduce stunting
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Conserving indigenous food resources can reduce stunting
Stunted growth is a reduced growth rate in human development. It is a primary manifestation of malnutrition or more precisely undernutrition and recurrent infections, such as diarrhea and helminthiasis, in early childhood and even before birth, due to malnutrition during fetal-
-development brought on by a malnourished mother. The definition of stunting according to the World Health OrganiSation (WHO) is for the height for age value to be less than two standard deviations of the WHO child growth standards median.
As of 2012 an estimated 162 million children under 5 years of age, or 25 per cent, were stunted. More than 90 per cent of the world s stunted children live in Africa and Asia, where respectively 36 per cent and 56 per cent of children are affected. Once established, stunting and its effects typically become permanent. Stu