Serious knowledge gaps exist in how agricultural developments lead to people's improved nutrition, which current research is not addressing, a report has found.

The report reveals eight gaps that are currently being neglected, including specific target groups — particularly rural workers and non-rural populations — as well as a lack of methodologies to guide research in the field.
Published by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), the report — 'Current and Planned Research on Agriculture for Improved Nutrition: A Mapping and Gap Analysis' — first identified the direct agricultural factors, such as farming practices and the food value chain, as well as indirect, including health, economic and educational status, that feed into nutritional outcomes. (...)

The article:
http://www.scidev.net/en/health/nutrition/news/report-identifies-gaps-in-research-on-agriculture-for-nutrition.html

The Report:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/pdf/outputs/misc_susag/LCIRAH_mapping_and_gap_analysis_21Aug12.pdf

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UN chief hails progress in scaling up maternal and child nutrition worldwide:

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43084&Cr=nutrition&Cr1=#.UGVLjVHAG1c