Gates Foundation-Nutrition. Promoting Healthy Growth Proper nutrition from birth to age 2 is critical to a child’s growth and development and lifelong health.
(Photo © Alive & Thrive/Tina Sanghvi) Quality tools and standards for measuring healthy growth—including those based on the World Health Organization’s Child Growth Standards—are available; however, further work is needed to understand the biological basis of faltering growth in fetuses and young children and the effectiveness of specific nutritional products and interventions to improve growth and neurodevelopment. To help fill this gap, we invest in the development of additional global standards to assess healthy fetal and child growth. Tetra Tech.
Fair Trade USA. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.