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Malnutrition–the longest raging pandemic in human history continues to ravage all regions of the world. Home to more than half of the world's 746 million acutely food insecure people [1], and with a rapidly increasing rate of obesity and other diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs), Africa has a unique challenge.
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