Press Release: Making malnutrition history – EU announces €3.5 billion for nutrition

The European Union (EU) is to spend an unprecedented €3.5 billion between 2014-2020 on improving nutrition in some of the world's poorest countries, Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs has pledged.

Speaking ahead of a donors' event on nutrition to take place in London on June 8, Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, said: "I find it incomprehensible that in an era of technological revolution, some 870 million people are still going hungry and malnutrition is responsible for over 3 million child deaths annually. We have the means to stop this tragedy. What is lacking is the political will and determination to do so. Our new financial pledge will demonstrate that the EU is determined to make malnutrition history for once and for all."

European Commission: Rapid: MEMO/13/517: EU action on nutrition in development cooperation http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-517_en.htm

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