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I finally had a chance to sit down and read the results from Copenhagen Consensus http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com which I blogged about earlier on in the week http://web2life.co.nz/content/copenhagen-consensus-2008-results-are-out
I am interested, particularly as a Food Technologist (by training), that 5 out of the top 10 best solutions are Food-technology related problems.
* Micronutrient supplements for children (vitamin and zinc)
* Micronutrient fortification (iron and salt iodization)
* Biofortification
* Malnutrition & Education
* Community?based nutrition promotion
After reading this list, my next question was to ask where is this problem in the world? To answer this I went to http://www.gapinder.org and looked up Malnutrition previlance. Cambodia, India, Nepal, Niger, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Honduras, and Mexico are the countries with the largest malutrition problem
(see link for a diagram).
http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=map$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=f;st=f;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=6;ti=2006$zpv;v=1$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=pyj6tScZqmEcEYRXHDvupJQ;by=const$inc_y;mmid=YCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj2tPLxKvvnNPA;by=const$inc_s;uniValue=8.21;iid=pyj6tScZqmEcEYRXHDvupJQ;by=ind$inc_c;uniValue=255;gid=CATID0;by=grp$map_s;sma=36;smi=8.2$cd;bd=0$inds=
The summary of the discussion around these solutions is available here