Malnutrition in Tanzania: Will food fortification laws work?

Tanzania’s fortification programme needs a clearer strategy for working with informal businesses that supply poor populations -- even as it monitors compliance by large companies. Yet strategies to develop new products and improve their nutritional content through fortification cannot solve the undernutrition problem on their own. Social protection programmes are urgently needed to build households’ ability to buy and produce food. Building markets for nutritious foods is part of the solution but won’t address the factors that make households vulnerable to undernutrition in the first place. (Excerpt)