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Joyce Njoro, nutrition specialist at IFAD, talks about the chronic impact of malnutrition and undernutrition.

There are more than 7.5 million smallholder farmers in Kenya, accounting for about 75 per cent of the country's total agricultural output.

A group of courageous Guatemalan women set off in 2010 to form their own farming cooperative, "4Pinos" after facing discrimination in the men's cooperative. 

Farmers in Rwanda can lose around 30 per cent of  their harvests before they even reach the market, due to a lack of adequate means to dry, store and transport the crops.

With traditional crops abandoned for lucrative cash crops, malnutrition rates can quickly rise.