Rural Integrated Relief Service-ghana, Accra, West Africa

We have identified poverty on the parts of parents as the main causes of the problems. The organization has agreed with the opinion of the other research institution among other things that women should be empowered economically to support in the upkeep of family since women play a fundamental role in the upbringing of children.

It has also been found out that a strong correlation exist between nutrition and gender. The type of employment and income of women was shown to have impact on malnutrition?s. Regular in come for women reduced malnutrition in house holds as it improved women?s ability to take care for their families better.

The most nutritionally vulnerable groups are infants, young children and women, particularly those who are pregnant or lactating.

The multifaceted nature of the cause of malnutrion has long been identified. This is characterized by immediate and underlying causes such as household food insecurity, inadequate care for women and children inadequate health services all due to poverty.

The development of our human resource as a nation is hampered to a significant extent by problems associated with mal nutrition.

Nutrition has taken center stage in world politics and it has been identified as key in realizing the United Nations millennium development goals which focuses among other on the improvement of nutritional status thorough poverty alleviation and general sustainable socio-economic improvement (esp. women economic empowerment) in politically congenial environments such as Ghana.