This volume brings together 23 papers presented at the Third Hidden Hunger Conference, "The Post-2015 Agenda: Where are We Now? Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality and Combat Hidden Hunger," held in March 2017 in Stuttgart, Germany. Researchers from around the world detail strategies to improve to nutrition quality and combat hidden hunger currently implemented in different regions of the world, including economic and political innovations, the role of public partners, governance challenges for implementing nutrition-specific programs on a large scale, the major international nutrition system changes called for and recent governance initiatives to address malnutrition, and the role of land in food and nutrition security. They describe programs like Bread for the World, Compact2025, and the kitchen garden program and the Moringa project in West Bengal; a human rights approach to the nutritional welfare of children in Southern Africa; the link between production diversity and dietary quality in smallholder farm households; reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification; the global deficiency in DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid); undernutrition and overnutrition; transdisciplinary approaches and methods; hidden hunger in refugee camps; the agricultural perspective; strategies for Latin America, the Caribbean, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, and Tunisia; agricultural assistance to vulnerable, food-insecure female-headed households in Kyrgyzstan; the Linking Agriculture, Natural Resources and Nutrition approach for nutrition security; vitamin D deficiency; Nutrition Education Cells to fight child under nutrition and strengthen community resilience; and Enset cultivation in Zambia. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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