May 3, 2016 | By Roger Thurow, Senior Fellow, Global Food and Agriculture
Malnutrition is often called a silent emergency, because it can be hard to see the damage it does to children around the world.InThe First 1,000 Days, Roger Thurow makes readers sit up and take notice. He takes us to the four corners of the world—from the streets of Chicago to the villages of northern Uganda—to show how the right nutrition helps children not just survive, but thrive.
Melinda Gates, Cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
This rising generation is one of Africa’s richest resources. But even if jobs are available, would the continent’s youth be able to adequately perform them? Eliminating malnutrition is key to unlocking their potential.
The latest podcast in our ongoing series with Roger Thurow. Hear the story of HarvestPlus and biofortification as told by moms in Uganda who discover the nutritious benefits of fortified crops.
This rising generation is one of Africa’s richest resources. But even if jobs are available, would the continent’s youth be able to adequately perform them? Eliminating malnutrition is key to unlocking their potential.
The latest podcast in our ongoing series with Roger Thurow. Hear how even the best nutrition projects can be undermined by bad water, poor sanitation and hygiene, and lousy infrastructure. From northern Uganda, we hear a mother’s agony when her healthy, robust child suddenly falls ill after a few sips of water…unclean water, it turned out.
The latest podcast in our ongoing series with Roger Thurow. Hear the story of HarvestPlus and biofortification as told by moms in Uganda who discover the nutritious benefits of fortified crops.
Check out Roger Thurow's testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.
In his new book, The First 1,000 Days, Council senior fellow Roger Thurow illuminates the 1,000 Days initiative to end early childhood malnutrition through the compelling stories of new mothers in Uganda, India, Guatemala, and Chicago. Get a first-look at photos and stories from the book in this new web interactive.
Roger Thurow’s book will tell the story of the vital importance of proper nutrition and health care in the 1,000 days window from the beginning of a woman’s pregnancy to her child’s second birthday.
The 1,000 days period is the crucial period of development, when malnutrition can have severe life-long impacts on the individual, the family and society as a whole. Nutritional deficiencies that occur during this time are often overlooked, resulting in a hidden hunger. It is a problem of great human and economic dimensions, impacting rich and poor countries alike.
In The Last Hunger Season, the intimate dramas of the farmers' lives unfold amidst growing awareness that to feed the world's growing population, food production must double by 2050. How will the farmers, Africa, and a hungrier world deal with issues of water usage, land ownership, foreign investment, corruption, GMO's, the changing role of women, and the politics of foreign aid?
Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, award-winning writers on Africa, development, and agriculture, see famine as the result of bad policies spanning the political spectrum. In this compelling investigative narrative, they explain through vivid human stories how the agricultural revolutions that transformed Asia and Latin America stopped short in Africa, and how our sometimes well-intentioned strategies—alternating with ignorance and neglect—have conspired to keep the world’s poorest people hungry and unable to feed themselves.
In his new book, The First 1,000 Days, Council senior fellow Roger Thurow illuminates the 1,000 Days initiative to end early childhood malnutrition through the compelling stories of new mothers in Uganda, India, Guatemala, and Chicago. Get a first-look at photos and stories from the book in this 
