FAO, Food and Agricultural Organisation and IFAD, International Fund for Agricultural Development and UNICEF, United Nations Children’s Fund and WFP, World Food Programme and WHO, World Health Organisation and ESCWA, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (2023) Near East and North Africa - Regional overview of food security and nutrition 2023: Statstics and trends. FAO; IFAD; UNICEF; WFP; WHO; ESCWA, Cairo, Egypt. ISBN 978-92-5-138210-3
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The Overview presents the food security and nutrition situation in the Arab States for 2022 when the effects of the war in Ukraine and record-high food and fertilizer prices hit the region that was just recovering from the economic and social shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, hunger in the Arab States has reached its highest level since 2000. The Arab region continued to suffer from the triple burden of malnutrition: besides under nutrition, child overweight/adult obesity and micronutrient deficiencies, such as anemia. The prevalences of overweight among children and of anemia among women are higher than the world average. The downward trend of child stunting has slowed down, and recent high food prices might even reverse it. Furthermore, the cost of a healthy diet in the region has been increasing in recent years, and healthy diets are out of reach for almost every other person in the Arab States. The region’s deteriorating food security and nutrition situation calls for the urgent need to transform agrifood systems, making them more resilient to shocks and emerging crises, more efficient, inclusive and sustainable to reach the Sustainable Development Goal 2 targets.
| Item Type: | Books |
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| Keywords: | Food Security, Nutrition, Statistics, FAO, Africa, Poverty, Sustainable Development |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2024 12:04 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 12:04 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/20378 |
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