{
  "id": 10896122,
  "title": "Nutrition requires sustained investment – Veep",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/nutrition-requires-sustained-investment-veep",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-30T08:14:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Ghanaian Times",
    "slug": "ghanaian-times",
    "url": "https://ghanaiantimes.com.gh/nutrition-requires-sustained-investment-veep/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Ghana's Vice-President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has emphasized the urgent need for increased investment in nutrition to address the devastating impact of malnutrition on children, women, and the nation's future. Speaking at the Seventh Global Conference of the Micronutrient Forum in Accra, she stressed that malnutrition is a significant barrier to human development and requires coordinated action from all sectors, including governments, scientists, development partners, civil society, and the private sector. Prof. Opoku-Agyemang highlighted the numerous challenges Ghana faces, such as anaemia among women and adolescent girls, poor diet quality, inadequate breastfeeding, and poor household income - all factors that influence nutrition. To combat these issues, the government is integrating nutrition into various sectors like health, education, agriculture, and social protection, implementing programmes such as adolescent nutrition, school feeding, maternal and child health services, and social protection schemes. She also stressed the importance of a properly funded, accessible, and sustainable nutrition system to ensure that more children suffering from wasting receive treatment, including therapeutic foods. Prof. Opoku-Agyemang further pointed out that the government is committed to funding essential nutrition commodities, multiple micronutrient supplements, and equipment to monitor nutritional status. The school feeding programme, currently reaching over 4.5 million children, is being improved by enhancing nutritional standards, caterer training, and monitoring. The Feed Ghana programme is also being employed to boost domestic food production and make nutritious food more accessible.",
  "summary": "Ghana must urgently scale up investment in nutrition to halt the devastating effects of malnutrition on children, women and the country’s future, Vice-President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has said. She said the fight against malnutrition could no longer be treated as a stand-alone health issue but required sustained investment and coordinated action across government and … The post…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}