Global Nutrition Report Highlights Role of Climate

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WFP Nutrition Programme, North DarfurA community volunteer weighs a child with malnutrition at a food distribution centre in the Rwanda camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), near Tawila, North Darfur. More than 8,000 women and children living in the camp benefit from nutrition programmes run by the World Food Programme (WFP).Photo by United Nations Photo | Flickr | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Date of Publication: September 15, 2015

Year of Publication: 2015

Publication City: New York, NY

Publisher: Earth Institute, Columbia University

Author(s): Francesco Fiondella

Madeleine Thomson, from the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, explains how the recently released Global Nutrition Report approaches climate:

We wanted to highlight that it isn’t just about how climate will have an impact on nutrition in 50 years time, but on the way climate impacts nutrition today. –Madeleine Thomson in State of the Planet

The report will be officially launched on September 22nd, but you can read more of the article by Francesco Fiondella for the State of the Planet Blog here, and access the full report here.

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