Stuart Gillespie, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
A new report by the Lancet Commission on the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Changedelivers a powerful, incisive analysis of the drivers of those overlapping worldwide problems with some long-overdue and hard-hitting recommendations. The starting point is a recognition that malnutrition in all its forms is by far the biggest cause of ill-health globally, and that this is because we are in the midst of a “global syndemic”.
