Anna-Lisa Noack
Anna-Lisa Noack is a nutrition investment consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in Rome working to incorporate nutrition in agricultural investment programming in Asia and the Pacific. She is currently working to support countries under the Zero Hunger Challenge to strengthen their nutrition policy and programs and to strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages in agriculture extension curricula. She holds a Research Masters in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Her main area of work has been to understand the underlying social drivers of (changing) dietary habits.
The numbers speak loud and clear. Nearly half of the world’s population is malnourished; 2 billion people are estimated to be undernourished while 1.5 billion are considered to be ‘over-nourished’ or overweight. According to the FAO, “Micronutrient deficiencies (‘hidden hunger’) still affect over 30 percent of the world’s population…
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9 December, 2014
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