Reforming Quality of Global Food Aid Critical to Fight Childhood Malnutrition

Top Donor Countries Must End Double Standard of Supplying Nutritionally Substandard Foods to Young Children in Malnutrition ‘Hotspots'

The world’s top food aid donors, including the United States, Canada, Japan, and the European Union, continue to supply and finance nutritionally substandard foods to developing countries, despite conclusive scientific evidence of their ineffectiveness in reducing childhood malnutrition, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today, in advance of World Food Day on October 16.

Malnutrition—a preventable and treatable condition—affects 195 million children worldwide, the majority of whom live in areas not affected by armed conflicts. It is the underlying cause of at least one-third of the eight million annual deaths of children under five years of age. Malnutrition is not merely the result of too little food.

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