"The world's worst child health crisis is malnutrition. Climate change is making it even harder to solve. To protect the world’s children from hunger’s worst effects, we must invest in global health." Bill Gates
The Gates Foundation's latest Goalkeepers Report, “The Race to Nourish a Warming World”, focuses on child malnutrition - already at crisis levels and likely to become more serious as the world continues to warm.
" UNICEF found that two-thirds of the world’s children — more than 400 million kids — are not getting enough nutrients to grow and thrive. Furthermore, the World Health Organization estimated in 2023 that 148 million children experienced stunting and 45 million children experienced wasting — the most severe forms of chronic and acute malnutrition."
“Every now and then, somebody will ask me what I would do if I had a magic wand,” he wrote. “For years, I’ve given the same answer: I would solve malnutrition.”
"Malnutrition is the underlying cause of around half of all preventable child deaths..."
"....economists should start thinking of malnutrition as an economic data point, as nutritional deficits quickly translate into financial deficits.” And those financial deficits are staggering: Each year the cost of undernutrition is $3 trillion in productivity lost because people’s physical and cognitive abilities are stunted."
Click here for "Gates Foundation sounds the alarm on the crisis of child malnutrition", in Devex
Click here for the 8th Annual Goalkeepers Report "The Race to Nourish a Warming World" by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
Or scroll through the report below:
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