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SVP DSM Nutrition Science & Advocacy

“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”

Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 25 (1948)

Nutrition-sensitive agricultural policies are essential to combat the global scourge of malnutrition

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The Road to Good Nutrition is about a journey. It is not the journey of a lone individual, or organization, or country, or even continent. It is a journey that the world has embarked on - and which we can only complete if we all walk the road together. This book is about how to improve the nutritional status of the world’s population as a whole. It therefore touches each and every one of us, and we each have a role to play in helping the world a step further towards that goal.

This work is published at a critical moment in our global understanding of the challenges and opportunities we face. The need for a concerted approach to the elimination of malnutrition worldwide has never been greater. Nor has the world’s desire to confront malnutrition in a concerted manner. The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement continues to gather momentum even as this book goes to press; the evidential base for action has been strengthened yet further by the publication of the 2013 Lancet series on Maternal and Child Nutrition; and the interactions between nutritionists, policy-makers, program managers and donors have never been so many, so frequent or so productive. This is a moment which the world must seize. And to seize that moment, we must grasp the fact that, for all the many challenges we face, the elimination of malnutrition is a possibility. It can be achieved in practical terms, if only we have the will to work together.

The Road to Good Nutrition presents a collective vision, and it is the product of a collective effort. As Editor-in-Chief of the volume, it has been my privilege to work with an international Editorial Board that has brought to the table the expertise of many different disciplines and the experience of many decades. For the generous provision of their time, their telling insights and their firm commitment to the creation of this book I would like to offer my warm thanks to Marc Van Ameringen, Hans Konrad Biesalski, Junshi Chen, Klaus Kraemer, Asma Lateef, Marie Ruel and Venkatesh Mannar. Klaus Kraemer and Marie Ruel worked tirelessly to ensure that the book’s contents were as accurate and up-to-the-minute as possible; Hans Konrad Biesalski provided important new research in the field of hidden hunger; Asma Lateef gave perspectives on the growing role of civil society in combating malnutrition, and Marc Van Ameringen on the part that donor organizations can play; while Junshi Chen and Venkatesh Mannar offered the viewpoints derived from the experience of China and India respectively, helping to ensure that our perspective was as global as possible. I am grateful to all of them.

“A hungry man can’t see right or wrong. He just sees food.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

I am likewise grateful to the contributors who graciously provided the content for this book, taking time out of their packed agendas and busy traveling schedules to craft their individual chapters. My thanks go to Tom Arnold, Hans Konrad Biesalski, Martin Bloem, Joachim von Braun, Alan Dangour, Stuart Gillespie, John Hoddinott, Eileen Kennedy, Alain Labrique, Asma Lateef, Marguerite B. Lucea, Saskia de Pee, Victoria Quinn, Marie Ruel, Werner Schultink and Patrick Webb. They have each helped to shape this work, offering world-class thinking in response to a global challenge. My thanks, and the thanks of the entire Editorial Board, go to each of them.

Last but by absolutely no means least, I would like to thank David Nabarro for his foreword to this volume, whose sentiments I can only echo. I hope that it will help to spread the good news of SUN yet further and encourage yet more support for the Movement.

The road that leads us towards good nutrition is not a short one. Nor is it an easy one. But it is one that we can negotiate if we walk it together.

Manfred Eggersdorfer

SVP Nutrition Science and Advocacy, DSM

Kaiseraugst, June 2013

Nelson Mandela

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“Hunger is an aberration of the civilized world. It is the result of civil wars, oppressive governments, and famines of biblical proportions. Families are torn asunder by the question of who will eat. As global citizens, we must free children from the nightmare of poverty and abuse and deprivation. We must protect parents from the horrifying dilemma of choosing who will live. Hunger is a basic need that must be met before anyone can escape the depths of ignorance, before any society can stand without aid, but more importantly, before any child’s body can survive the onslaught of disease such as the scourges of HIV, TB and malaria.”

Nelson Mandela, 2004