Using sweet potatoes and stories to demystify nutrition, science

HAD African policy-makers, development agencies and nutritionists succeeded in embedding nutrition messages into the social fabric, malnutrition wouldn’t be high in African communities that are blessed with abundant and diverse food systems.

By treating nutrition activities as sporadic news, the media has failed to make a difference in malnutrition.

Drama and road shows have been ineffective because audiences remember the jokes and gifts like T-shirts or sweets thrown around during road shows, but forget the serious underlying messages.

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