Malnourished mothers give birth to low birthweight babies who are more prone to sickness.
With a gender bias against the female child in intra-family food allocation, which itself is inadequate, the mother of the future is malnourished. For, if the goal of food security for all is to be reached there must be significant increases in food production, and improved access to food. He noted that much of the investment in food security would continue to be private, three quarters of that coming from the millions of small farmers, traders, village artisans, entrepreneurs and others engaged in the production and distribution of food in the poorer countries of the world through their investment in such improvements as water control and land development, better seeds and pest prevention. Translated into the ethics of international relations, this means focusing attention on the individual and collective commitment to devising practical ways of implementing a real sharing of resources, so that everyone will feel responsible for his neighbor - whether person, community, nation or State. It was observed this year with various commemorative events in more that 150 countries around the world.