These strategies represent complementary approaches and may form part of bilateral rural development projects. BMZ’s new 10-point programme for rural development and food security makes explicit reference to measures to reduce undernutrition and malnutrition (point 3) and to integrate food security in bilateral development cooperation. These are particularly effective among children and mothers as an investment in the future (4, 9).Diversification can take the form of improved agricultural production, development of vegetable plots, a good variety of foodstuffs and sound preparation methods within families, or multi-sector nutritional advice and training in schools. It can also be delivered through health services, along with food supplementation and fortification and can play a major part in helping to reduce malnutrition. The global challenge of hidden hungerExtreme food-price volatility, the impact of natural disasters, and long-term armed conflict have brought the need to combat hunger and malnutrition back on to the political agenda, and the problem has now been identified as a global challenge. International initiatives have been developed to tackle it: the Copenhagen Consensus (2008) in particular concluded that there was a high cost-benefit effect to combating malnutrition through food sup-plementation and fortification (10), proposing that investment be focused on these areas. Recent research (3, 11, 12)identifies the most effective and lowest-cost strategies for reducing hidden hunger. It also describes multi-sector approaches to food security, focusing particularly on preventive measures and targeting long-term results. The SUN initiative, with its emphasis on the first thousand days of life, identifies the importance of early intervention to reduce and prevent undernutrition and malnutrition (13). As at-risk groups, children, pregnant women and women with children also receive comprehensive health care.
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