Bangladesh just built an alliance to end 'hidden hunger' — the vitamins missing from full plates

A person can eat enough and still be starved of what their body needs. That is hidden hunger: missing iron, zinc, iodine and vitamins that quietly impair children's growth, learning and immunity. In Dhaka this week, Bangladesh launched the Fortification Alliance Bangladesh, bringing government agencies, the UN World Food Programme, UNICEF, the World Health Organization and food manufacturers into one effort to get those nutrients reliably into everyday foods — and to make sure fortified foods actually meet safety and quality standards. The alliance notes an estimated 25.6 million (2.56 crore) people in Bangladesh cannot afford a nutritious, varied diet; this is the machinery being built to close that gap.

SDG 2 · Zero hunger — Mechanism: institutional program