Sara Wolcott of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) attended our second international Creating Shared Value Forum in London last Thursday.
Commenting on the Nutrition and Development session on her blog, she refers to IDS Director and session panel member Lawrence Haddad's suggestion that we need to be concerned not only for the world's "bottom billion" people suffering from under-nutrition, but also the "billions of bottoms" that are getting larger when chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and other major killers are exacerbated by over-nutrition.
While Sara notes the general agreement among the panel with Haddad's argument that the private sector - especially Nestlé - has a great deal to offer through what he called the “four Ls” (learning, linking, leveraging and leadership), she wonders how companies can work to achieve this in reality.
View video hightlights from the Nutrition and Development session here.
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