Since 1990, the number of people defined as the world’s poorest group – living on less than $1.25 per day – has halved. But hunger levels have only gone down by a fifth. The prevailing wisdom is that to eliminate nutrition problems we had to produce more food and facilitate access to it. So now that fewer people live in extreme poverty, why haven't malnutrition rates gone down accordingly?

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