The Lancet Commission proposes a tax on red meat as one method to fight the "syndemic."
Veterinarians have become an integral part of the humanitarian response to malnutrition in the war-torn country.
At least 660,000 Venezuelan migrants have fled the country due to internal strife, but they are not finding relief in their neighboring country.
The country is ambitiously attempting to tackle malnutrition and stunting in children, but a lack of reliable statistics hampers its efforts to end the problem.
Due to malnutrition, the country once had one of the highest rates of stunted children in the world, but those numbers are falling.