Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit: Leveraging Japanese knowledge to address global health and nutrition challenges
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14.01.22
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BY SWATI MALHOTRA,FUTOSHI YAMAUCHI AND HIROYUKI TAKESHIMA
As many developing countries face enormous food system challenges such as the double burden of malnutrition, with both undernutrition and obesity on the rise, Japan’s rare nutrition success story—it has achieved zero hunger and is also unaffected by rising overweight—offers a positive example to the world. It owes this success partly to a broad social commitment to healthy nutrition, driven by innovation.
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