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Development Aid: Malnutrition

Asked by Wendy MortonConservativeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled Answered 14 March 2025UIN 35685

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle increasing malnutrition rates around the world through its international development programs.

Answered by Mr Hamish Falconer

The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office is taking steps to prevent, detect, and tackle malnutrition through our Child Wasting Innovation Programme (CWIP), the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) and through our approach to integrating nutrition objectives alongside other policy objectives on sectors such as health, food and agriculture, humanitarian, and climate.

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