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Empty stomachs today, sick workshops tomorrow: The need for nutrition NOW -Richard Mahapatra

-Down to Earth

The world’s hunger clock has regressed back to 2015 when the global community had resolved to get good food to all plates by 2030

The world is hungry and those who get to eat are not eating healthy, leading to wider prevalence of malnutrition — undernourishment, particularly.

About a tenth of the world’s population lacks proper nourishment, the latest United Nation State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World flagged.

Malnutrition includes under-nutrition, hidden hunger and being overweight. That means households are enduring hunger and a nutrition crisis together, leading to the making of a generation that is not healthy.

Such a high level of malnourishment means people, children especially, are eating not much according to their need or of nutritious value. Malnutrition is a foundational challenge: A malnourished child would grow up to be an unhealthy adult. A country with a high level of malnourishment, thus, will have an unhealthy population.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have stalled the global progress on achieving zero-hunger and malnourishment targets under the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. In 2021, nearly 30 per cent of the world population — 2.3 billion — was food insecure. This was an increase of 350 million people over 2019. This lack of access to food or inability to afford has a direct link to level of malnutrition.

The UN report says that prevalence of undernourishment in the world population has gone up from 8 per cent in 2019 to 9.8 per cent in 2021. In 2030, the level of malnourishment will be 8 per cent, same as in 2015 when the SDGs were set.

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