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Nutrition and national policy

The problems of malnutrition that manifest themselves worldwide are not solely--or even primarily--caused by limitations in the supply of food. Although agricultural insufficiencies and inefficiencies certainly exist and the effects of climate and weather can be disastrous, still the food supply, even in most poorer nations, is at least adequate for providing nutritional subsistence. The heart of the problem is rather one of food distribution and the commitment of national governments to the nutritional well-being of their citizens, particularly those on the lower levels of the economic scale.…