Nutrition
Specialty Foods for Malnourished Children (Plumpy’Nut and RUTF)
August 2, 2026 At the 2025 roundtable about America's comparative advantages for solving hunger, food insecurity and nutrition overseas, organized by World Hunger Education Service with other sponsors, participants agreed that America should keep providing quantities of "Ready to Use ...
Patrick Webb, Global Nutritionist Takes Lead at Cornell
July 11, 2026 Patrick Webb, the world's leading expert about nutrition science, food aid, famine and resilience this week began a new step in his lengthy career. Webb just joined Cornell University on July 1, 2026, as the inaugural Executive Director of the new Ashley School of Global Developm...
Study from China: Nutritional Deprivation Early in Life Has Long-term Consequences
June 20, 2026 A new Study in Social Science & Medicine, which tracks over 15,000 Chinese over many years finds that early childhood exposure to famine is associated later in life with poorer cognition, arthritis, rhemitism, job loss and early retirement. The study by Qixin Zhu, Eleanora Fich...
Malnutrition & Death Risks Rise in Bangladesh
May 11, 2026 Bangladesh’s leading newspaper, Prothom Alo, reported this week about a concerning decline in child health following decades of improvement, specifically regarding nutrition and measles. Health professionals have long recognized the insidious risks for children who are...
Interview: Edesia’s Maria Kasparian & Specialty Nutrition Foods
April 20, 2026 The WHES board met with and interviewed Maria Kasparian, expert about Plumpy’Nut which has become one of the most recognizable tools in the fight against severe acute malnutrition among young children around the world. Plumpy’Nut is one brand of the broader food type cal...
Food Fortification Efficiently Prevents Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency
March 5, 2026 A new analysis of food fortification programs finds that the fortification of consumer foods is cost-effective in the majority of contexts in reducing deficiency diseases of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). The findings are available online, as published by Elise Cogo, ...
New Approach to Controlling Malnutrition in Somalia
Childhood malnutriiton can be addressed by their communities via an initiative in Somalia developed by the "Maternal, Infant, Young Child and Adolescent Nutrition (MIYCAN) working group and fostered by UNICEF and the federal department of health of Somalia in the Horn of Africa. As of early 2026, th...
“Essentials of Public Health Communication”: Valuable Curricula
February 22, 2026 A round the world, a key shift during the past few decades in combatting malnutrition has been the adoption of social marketing, communications and "behavior change" to improve diets, caretaker behavior, and recognition of failures in child growth. The technical book, "Ess...
A Promising Model to Predict Rates of U.S. Food Insecurity
As covered in a September 20 Hunger Notes article, the USDA announced that they would no longer be collecting the annual data measuring household food insecurity and cancelling the Household Food Security Reports. This means that the 2024 report will be the last under the current format. However, ...
Key U.N. Updates Show Alarming Hunger Trends
December 2025 Recent UN annual reports and updates about global hunger highlight several important issues and trends as we move into 2026: WFP will prioritize feeding 110 million in 2026 despite larger need: Declines in global humanitarian funding are forcing WFP to prioritize food assistanc...
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