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World leaders must grasp the nettle in the battle against malnutrition | Lawrence Haddad and Dolf te Lintelo
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Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
But for leaders to convince us that they are serious about reducing malnutrition, they have to lead on accountability.
The first of them, the global nutrition report, brings together more than 80 nutrition indicators for each of the 193 UN member states.
The report also calls for bolder SDG nutrition targets for 2030, not mere extensions of the 2025 WHA targets.
About 40% of all countries cannot tell if they are on or off course to meet the WHA global targets.
Those who hold the power to accelerate reductions in malnutrition need to exercise it and allow us to hold them, and ourselves, accountable for ending the worldwide tragedy of 21st-century malnutrition.
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