Samenvatting

Malnutrition is a well-known and serious public-health problem throughout Africa. Madagascar is one of the poorest countries where 92% of the population lives below the poverty line. The combination of nutritional insecurity, poor health and poverty has a huge effect on the general welfare of people. The biggest problem is that people in developing countries do not have enough money to buy nutritious food. Especially in the countryside people do not have a large choice of food. The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported hunger and related malnutrition as the greatest threat to the world's public health. Madagascar is one of the countries where malnutrition is the highest public health problem.