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Title
Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG) Afghanistan: Executive Summary
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme (WFP), 2021.
Language Note
English
Description
4 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR2449
Summary
Malnutrition and hunger are serious concerns in Afghanistan. Despite some improvements in child undernutrition, with rates of stunting declining from 41 percent in 2013 to 37 percent in 2018, the level of stunting has remained ‘very high’ according to the World Health Organisation’s classification. Over two million children under 5 are stunted. Food insecurity has been on the rise since 2018, and in the first half of 2021 over 42 percent of the population was facing high levels of acute food insecurity. Afghanistan has made a global commitment to ending hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition as part of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2). To support these agendas and guide the development and strengthening of programmes and policies aimed at reducing malnutrition, the government of Afghanistan, with technical assistance from the World Food Programme (WFP), undertook a Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG) systems-focused nutrition situation analysis in 2020-2021.
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Electronic ed.
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Public
Call Number
ELR 2449
Language
English
System Control No.
MON-129037
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