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is the VOA Special English Development Report. October sixteenth World Food Day. The campaign chosen for this year the UN.. Food and Agriculture Organization is "The Right Food." The aim is to demonstrate that human rights increasingly recognized as an important part of ending hunger poverty. Worldwide, the United Nations says more than eight fifty million people do not have enough food. Every an estimated five million children under the age of die of nutrition-related causes. When it comes to food , quantity is important but so is quality. To help at risk, the international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders launched a worldwide appeal. The group is calling for expanded use of what is known as therapeutic ready-to-use to treat severely malnourished children. It also wants this of food added to children's diets to prevent malnutrition ever happening. Ready-to-use-food is usually a sweet spread made peanuts, dry milk, sugar, vegetable fat, minerals and vitamins. food does not have to be mixed with water, in many countries may be dirty. And families do have to go to feeding centers. Individual servings come to eat. Doctor Milton Tectonidis is a nutrition expert Doctors Without Borders. He tells us that traditional methods fighting hunger in children are not meeting their needs. flour or a mixture of corn and soy are used to improve children's diets. But he says this of food aid lacks enough calories and nutrients to malnutrition. The group is doing research in Niger. Doctor says this research has shown that ready-to-use food is effective in keeping children from becoming severely malnourished. The Health Organization estimates that twenty million children at any time suffer from severe malnutrition. Doctor Tectonidis says only percent of them will receive ready-to-use-food this year. Doctors Borders is urging donors, United Nations agencies and governments increase support for ready-to-use food. In addition, Doctor Tectonidis more research is needed to create new forms of . And not just to help children survive and grow, says, but even to support the diets of pregnant . And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written Jill Moss.

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