Sunday Standard (Botswana) published an article on nutrition, child stunting and underweight, and other forms of malnutrition. IFPRI says high food prices could help explain why countries such as Botswana continue to struggle with a double burden of malnutrition extremes. This includes diets that have too little nutrients or so many that the diet causes health problems. Malnutrition also covers issues such as under-nutrition, which includes wasting (low weight-for-height), stunting (low height-for-age), and underweight (low weight-for-age). In their study IFPRI state that the majority of non-cereal foods and nutritious foods are quite expensive in low-income countries. Research that was done prior to this report mainly focused on the link between nutritious food prices and obesity, however, this research is the first to study the link between food prices and undernutrition. IFPRI compared more than 657 food products using the World Bank’s International Comparison Program (ICP).
