We found that current indicators underestimate nearly 6 million children suffering from malnutrition.
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British children left angry and bewildered by food poverty.
As Canadian kids head back to school this week, many will be hungry. Lacking fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods, they will suffer mood problems, disease and low academic performance.
Students with unpaid meal debts have been experiencing some shaming policies at school. New rules are aimed at protecting these children, but the real solution may lie in free meals for all.
Tackling the challenge of stunting in South Africa needs a convergence of science and policy along with better coordination at all levels of government.
Poor childhood conditions, such as exposure to poverty and stunting, are associated with long-term disadvantages to health, education, social adjustment and earnings.
Ghana's school feeding programme has reached millions of children in the past 11 years. It does important work, but needs more support to grow and become sustainable.
More than 15 million children live in homes that do not have enough food. However, the number of children taking advantage of free breakfast in schools is low. What can schools do?
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
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Professor of Health Promotion; Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University
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Assistant Researcher, University of Energy and Natural Resources
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Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics and Director of the NYU Institute for Education and Social Policy, New York University
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Assistant Director of Education and Social Policy, New York University
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Associate Professor of Educational Economics, New York University
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Director DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape
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Distinguished Professor, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor, Education Studies, College of Education, University of Oregon
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Professor of Sociology, University of Kent
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Lecturer, Cardiff University
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Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
