Business as a Partner in Overcoming Malnutrition

In 2006, the World Bank published a seminal report Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development. It made a strong case that investments in proven technologies and interventions to tackle malnutrition offer potentially very high economic returns. Yet, as the Bank and others argue, "the international community and most governments in developing countries have failed to tackle nutrition over the past decades, even though well-tested approaches for doing so exist .. .. The unequivocal choice now is between continuing to fail, or to finally make nutrition central to development so that a wide range of economic and social improvements can be realized."