Regina Moench-Pfanner: Urbanization, Processed Food & Malnutrition Crisis in Emerging Asia
Channel: HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS)
Date: 2016-11-28

In this HKUST IEMS Academic Seminar, Dr Regina Moench-Pfanner describes a a new norm of malnutrition: obesity and non-communicable diseases are on their rise, while a substantial proportion of people still suffer from undernutrition.  She suggests how all sectors involved in the food and nutrition value-chain should work together to achieve the research-driven incremental improvements and disruptive innovations that shift the factors of food production and consumption towards improved nutritional and health-related outcomes.