UNICEF reported 1 in 4 children globally live in severe child food poverty due to inequity, conflict, and climate crises.

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Around 181 million children worldwide under 5 years of age – or 1 in 4 – are experiencing severe child food poverty, making them up to 50 per cent more likely to experience wasting, a life-threatening form of malnutrition, a new UNICEF report reveals today. For the first time, Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood analyses the impacts and causes of dietary deprivation among the world’s youngest people in nearly 100 countries, and across income groups. It warns that millions of children under the age of five are unable to access and consume a nutritious and diverse diet to sustain optimal growth and development in early childhood and beyond.


      Children experiencing this level of food poverty are up to 50 per cent more likely to suffer from life-threatening malnutrition.

      Children who consume, at most, two of eight defined food groups are considered to be in severe child food poverty.

     

 

     


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