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Conserving indigenous food resources can reduce stunting 10 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 bec ....
Former PM calls for cultivation of nutritious crops to reduce stunting 27 Former PM calls for cultivation of nutritious crops to reduce stunting FORMER Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has said that the only way to address the serious problem of malnutrition which threatens the well-being of the country at the moment is to encourage the cultivation of nutritious crops to reduce stunting from 32 to 24 per cent. FORMER Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda. Pinda made the call yesterday here when he speaking at the pan-African summit aimed at exploring the role of traditional vegetables in strengthening and diversifying food systems, reducing poverty, energizing the industry, and improving health and income for all citizens. ....