Promoting healthy growth and preventing childhood stunting: a global challenge

Abstract

This compendium of reflections on a wide range of issues should feed a constructive dialogue on how best to pool efforts and address effectively the ‘wicked problem’ (Conklin 2005) of childhood stunting. Development agencies and the nutrition community are challenged to translate the existing high-level political and financial commitments into effective synergistic actions coordinated among multiple actors to reduce the global burden of stunting. Through this supplement and other initiatives the Healthy Growth Project hopes to make positive contributions to meeting that challenge. (Excerpt)