Animal sourced foods and child nutrition in SA: Policy priorities
Although some South Asian countries have recently made impressive progress against undernutrition, indicators of maternal and child nutrition remain extremely poor across South Asia. In all countries except the Maldives and Sri Lanka, more than a third of preschool children are stunted, 33–52 percent of adult women have anemia and most countries have wasting prevalence in excess of 10% (considered “alarming”).
