MY DREAM IAS !

World leader signed a global agreement to fight malnutrition in children and made commitments of up to 4.15 billion dollars to tackle under nutrition up to 2020. The agreement, called Global Nutrition for Growth was signed during central London summit.


The participants who signed a Global Nutrition for Growth Compact- Committed  their countries and organizations by 2020 to :

• Improving the nutrition of 500 million pregnant women and young children
• Reducing the number of children under five who are stunted by an additional 20 million
• Saving the lives of at least 1.7 million children by preventing stunting, increasing breastfeeding and better treatment of severe and acute malnutrition.