What’s driving sub-Saharan Africa’s malnutrition problem?
In sub-Saharan Africa, obesity is emerging as a new form of food insecurity while malnutrition persists.
Ishac Diwan is an affiliate at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative at Harvard University and Chaire d’Excellence Monde Arabe at Paris Sciences et Lettres. He contributed to the creation of the prime network of economists in the Middle East, the Economic Research Forum, and of a regional policy forum, the Mediterranean Development Forum. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Arab World.
In sub-Saharan Africa, obesity is emerging as a new form of food insecurity while malnutrition persists.
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