795 million people in the world do not have enough to eat to live both an active and healthy life (WPF, 2015). Malnutrition is the lack of proper nutrition which is caused by not having enough to eat or not eating enough of the right foods. This a global issue as it affects a large majority of the world’s population predominantly from people who live in developing countries where 13.5% of people in these countries are undernourished(WPF,2015). Currently organisations like the World Food Programme have desperately been trying to send aid to impoverished countries where hunger grips a large portion of the population. The World Food Programme has sought out to prevent hunger through a variety of methods including the creation of school meal projects, which attempt to ensure that in these developing countries no child goes to school hungry along with providing the children with take home rations. Though this just simply isn’t enough, it would require 3.2 billion US to reach all 66 million hungry-school aged children alone, and that isn’t including the large population of adults that are also heavily undernourished (WPF, 2015). Solving this issue is paramount to the further growth and prosperity of the global society and community as a whole as it will enable under developed countries to focus more on building up their economy, prevent the deaths of millions and have them advance and grow their society.
One of the collateral consequences that are a direct result of malnutrition is vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A is the cause of over 500,000 cases of irreversible blindness and kills approximately 2 million each year (GRP, 2015). Vitamin A deficiency grips a significant portion of the world’s population with an estimated 19 million pregnant women and 190 million children suffering from vitamin A deficiency (GPR, 2015). The only apparent solution to this problem through the dietary supplementation of vitamin A to the population who suffer from VAD. This however, can...