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Data can help to end malnutrition across Africa

Progress in the fight against hunger is patchy. New tools must target action to those who are most vulnerable, says Kofi Annan.
  1. Kofi Annan

    1. Kofi Annan is chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland; former secretary-general of the United Nations; and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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In 2000, the United Nations hosted the largest gathering of political leaders ever held. At that meeting, all 189 UN member states, plus leading development institutions, committed to the Millennium Development Goals, a set of eight ambitious goals for lifting more than one billion people worldwide out of extreme poverty.

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Nature 555, 7 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02386-3

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