How the EU stepped up its game on nutrition
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Jean-Pierre Halkin, head of the rural development, food security and nutrition unit at EuropeAid, has explained how the profound impact of undernutrition went overlooked for too long by the international community.
"The global food price crisis came as a shock to us all, and we realized all too painfully how interconnected and interdependent our global food security truly is," Mr Halkin wrote in a recent article for DEVEX.
"Then, from around 2008, the European Union began to sit up and take notice — and to take action, becoming a leading voice in the call for an increased focus on nutrition as a central concern in bringing about sustainable and equitable food security for all."
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