undernourishment

Noun

Meaning

Insufficient nourishment

The condition of being undernourished

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Robert M. Hutchins

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them? Amartya Sen

More people die from overeating than from undernourishment. Jewish Proverb

Mobilization of the public and private sectors, the involvement of civil society and the pooling of collective and individual resources are all needed if people are to break out of the vicious circle of chronic hunger and undernourishment. Source: Internet

Governments alone cannot end hunger and undernourishment. Source: Internet

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