Strategies to combat malnutrition:

1. Strategy to increase food production:

– Use bare land for cultivation, improve the method of farming, and produce nutrients that could be used as foods by chemical engineering, genetic engineering, or through GMC/A.

2. Food consumption and distribution system should be improved:

– Government action: legislation

– Food subsidies: artificial lowering of price

– Rationing scheme: to make food available in limited amounts

– Black markets: should controlled.

– Food enrichment program: food enriched or fortified by the addition of def. Nutrients.

– Welfare food program: for poor people as school meals, nursing mothers.

3. Government procurement and distribution system should be improved:

– Transport problems

– Storage of foods

– Price control

4. International aid should be properly utilized on a social justice basis so that real targets will benefit them.

5. Nutrition education and functional literacy program:

– Teach about health education (people of all sectors teach to their patients/pupils/consumers etc)

6. Nutrition intervention program:

a. Nutritional measures: such as food subsidies, rationing schemes, fortification, welfare food as schoomealsal, etc.

b. Non-nutritional measures: radio, TV, newspaper, and, magazines play a role in the extension of knowledge about the importance of health education.