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A different focus on stunting
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06.05.19
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Is stunting the problem we need to solve, or the indicator of the problems we should be looking at? Jef Leroy, Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, recently explained what stunting means and how the focus on it could cause confusion that can prevent us from solving global nutrition challenges.
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