Published 13 November 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4833
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4833

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Less than 2% of food aid is spent on interventions to reduce malnutrition in children

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World leaders will be condemning millions of children to death or permanent handicap from malnutrition unless they radically alter their policies and priorities for dealing with famine ridden countries, a leading medical charity has warned.

Médecins Sans Frontières made the attack ahead of this month’s world food summit in Rome.

Daniel Berman, chairman of the charity’s campaign on access to essential medicines, said that rich nations were about to make a "colossal mistake" by investing in long term agriculture programmes at the expense of urgent measures to target food aid at the hungriest children.

He warned that recent policy statements emerging from the G8 and G20 summits indicated that flawed policies would prevail at the Food and Agriculture Organization’s summit in Rome on 16 to 18 November.

Mr Berman said the failure to invest in childhood nutrition programmes was illustrated in MSF’s new report, Malnutrition: How Much is Being Spent?. . . [Full text of this article]

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