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Global malnutrition

Overweight or obese people increase since '80s' 805 million people are food insecure today 2.1 (? billion people TUESDAY MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY GLOBAL 0.875 billion people FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1980 ALMITRITIO Vitamin Iron Zinc lodine 26 30 53 Fe Zn 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies 1 Ng M, Fleming T, Robinson M, et al. 2014 2 FAO: The State of Food and Agriculture 2014 3 Global Hunger Index 2014

Global malnutrition

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An estimated 805 million people suffer from insecure food supplies, poor access to foods, and nutritionally inadequate diets. The number of people who are obese or overweight has topped 2.1 billion, u... p from 875 million in 1980. 2 billion suffer from micronutrient deficiencies - when the diet lacks essential vitamins and minerals required for proper growth and development, such as vitamin A, iron, zinc and calcium. Bioversity International investigates how agricultural and tree biodiversity can be better used within local food production systems to improve access to nutritionally-rich food sources and increase dietary diversity, with a particular focus on women of reproductive age and children under two. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/1JqHSEC