Malnutrition is the worst health crisis that children face in the world today, with health and economic impacts that will reverberate long into the future — but countries can protect children from hunger’s worst effects by reinvesting in global health, according to the Gates Foundation.
In its eighth annual Goalkeepers report, published Tuesday, the foundation urges countries to shore up global health funding, which has stagnated in recent years. The report, titled “The Race to Nourish a Warming World,” also shows how climate change is exacerbating the problem of malnutrition and making it harder to solve.
“Every now and then, somebody will ask me what I would do if I had a magic wand,” the foundation’s co-chair Bill Gates wrote in the report’s introduction. “For years, I’ve given the same answer: I would solve malnutrition.”
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Tania Karas is a Senior Editor at Devex, where she edits coverage on global development and humanitarian aid in the Americas. Previously, she managed the digital team for The World, where she oversaw content production for the website, podcast, newsletter, and social media platforms. Tania also spent three years as a foreign correspondent in Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon, covering the Syrian refugee crisis and European politics. She started her career as a staff reporter for the New York Law Journal, covering immigration and access to justice.
