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Key to sustainable nutrition in Africa is prevention not treatment

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Key to sustainable nutrition in Africa is prevention not treatment

by The Daily Eye Team February 3 2014, 1:42 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 29 secs

Stunting among children increased to 45 per cent in 2011

Africa must take charge of research priorities to beat malnutrition and hunger

Interventions to prevent, rather than treat nutritional problems, are needed to alleviate malnutrition and hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa according to new research. Nutritional programmes by foreign donors in Africa typically focus on treatment and technical solutions, like vitamin and mineral supplementation. However ground breaking research conducted by the EU-funded Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in Years to come (SUNRAY) project discovered that community-based interventions to prevent, rather than treat nutritional problems are desperately needed.

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