La United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) have announced the launch of the second international conference on nutrition (CIN2) that will take place in Rome from 19 to 21 November, and will address one of the most important problems of our time: how to reorganize the government of the work nutritional worldwide to face the three biggest challenges of the XNUMXst century?
First challenge, a large proportion of the población worldwide today suffers from malnutrition. One third of children in developing countries development are underweight or delayed growth. Two billion people are affected by deficiencies in micronutrients, and more than 840 million suffer from chronic hunger.
Second challenge, the problems of health related to the insufficiencies or excesses of our consumption, with techniques of production, industrial transformation or distribution erroneous, proliferate. Obesity and overweight they affect about XNUMX billion people.
El overconsumption of fats or sugars, pesticide residues in food, the increasing use of nutritional supplements have become massive phenomena of the legal end social. Not counting the problems of fullfilment of security requirements . that kill around three million people every year in the world.