Emily Yates-Doerr

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Mal-Nutrition documents how maternal health interventions in Guatemala are complicit in reproducing poverty. Policymakers discuss how a critical window of biological growth around the time of pregnancy—called the "first 1,000 days of life"—determines health and wealth...