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AS DISCUSSED IN CHAPTER 1, SETTING TARGETS IS ONE MANIFESTATION OF POLITICAL COMMITMENT. COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY MADE A SERIES OF COMMITMENTS TO ATTAIN global nutrition targets by 2025 (Panel 2.1). For maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, the 2012 World Health Assembly (WHA) set six targets for 2025. The Global Nutrition Report tracks five of these.1 The WHA also agreed on nine noncommunicable disease (NCD) targets, one of which—"Halt the rise in diabetes and obesity"—is tracked in this report via three indicators. In all, we use eight nutrition status indicators to track six of the targets. ; PR ; IFPRI1; CRP4; B Promoting healthy food systems ; A4NH; PHND ; CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

HOW 'SMALL' IS SMALL? DOES THE QUALIFYING ADJECTIVE APPLY TO AREA? OR TO POPULATION? OR TO RESOURCES AND WEALTH? SOME STATES, LIKE SINGAPORE, ARE TINY BUT HARDLY WEAK. OTHERS APPEAR LARGE, RICH, POPULOUS AND POWERFUL BUT TURN OUT TO BE SO POLITICALLY FRAGILE THAT A SMALL GROUP OF DETERMINED MEN CAN EFFECTIVELY HIJACK THE STATE, JUST AS WITH THE SMALL AND WEAK, AS WITH IRAN. THE PROBLEM, THEREFORE, IS THAT THE UPPER END OF THE SMALL-STATE BAND IS VERY HARD TO DEFINE. WE ALL THINK THAT WE KNOW WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MICRO-STATES AND THERE ARE SOME CANDIDATES FOR EVERYONE'S LIST, BUT A DEFINITIONAL APPROACH-EVENN A COMPLEX ONE WHICH TAKES ACCOUNT OF SIZE, POPULATION AND WEALTH-IS PROBABLY UNPRODUCTIVE, AT LEAST IN A PREDICTIVE SENSE. YET EVEN IF WE HAVE THE GREATEST DIFFICULTY IN AGREEING WHAT A SMALL STATE 'IS', WE DO HAVE SOME SENSE OF RELATIVE WEAKNESS AND SO OF THE SECURITY PROBLEMS CREATED BY THAT WEAKNESS. IT DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE TO BEGIN AT THE OTHER END, HOWEVER, AND SAY THAT A WEAK STATE IS A STATE THAT NEEDS EXTERNAL SECURITY SUPPORT. IN THAT SENSE, WEST EUROPEAN STATES ARE WEAK STATES FOR WE FEEL THE NEED TO INVOKE THE POWER OF THE UNITED STATES TO OFFSET THE POWER OF OUR SOVIET NEIGHBOUR.