Reducing Malnutrition: We Know What Works Every year, nearly 3
million mothers and young children die of malnutrition. But
putting more resources into programs and strategies that we know
work can dramatically reduce this number. “If we focus on babies
and their mothers, you save the most lives,” said Bread
President David Beckmann in “Investing in Nutrition,” a video
the World Bank produced to urge country leaders to step up their
nutrition efforts. “You provide food for hungry kids, and help
those mothers introduce nutritionally healthy patterns into
their family’s diets. Then set up systems to get key vitamins
and minerals into the foods that everybody in the country eats.
If we do those few simple things, we could improve the nutrition
of hundreds of millions of kids.” Ministers, leaders of
development agencies, and civil society organizations made a
similar appeal during last week’s World Bank and International
Monetary Fund meetings in Washington, DC. Participants at a
“nutrition roundtable” highlighted