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Widespread Childhood Malnutrition is a Paradox in Agriculturally Rich Guatemala

About half of Guatemala’s children will face physical or developmental challenges due to malnutrition, yet vegetables grown for export overflow in the countryside. Roger Thurow longtime journalist for the Wall Street Journal — and more recently the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting — teams with PBS’s Hari Sreenivasan to report on efforts by the country’s leaders to reduce hunger and promote nutrition. 

PBS, June 2014