Child Food Poverty: Addressing Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood

New York (New York - USA): United Nations Childrens' Fund (UNICEF), 2024.

English

92 p.

WFP-ELR-3036

Across the world, millions of parents and families are struggling to provide nutritious and diverse foods that young children need to reach their full potential. Growing inequities, conflict, and climate crises, combined with rising food prices, the overabundance of unhealthy foods, harmful food marketing strategies and poor child feeding practices, are condemning millions of children to child food poverty. UNICEF defines child food poverty as children’s inability to access and consume a nutritious and diverse diet in early childhood. Child food poverty harms all children, but it is particularly damaging in early childhood when insufficient dietary intake of essential nutrients can cause the greatest harm to child survival, physical growth, and cognitive development, trapping children and their families in a cycle of poverty and deprivation. ‘Child Food Poverty: Nutrition deprivation in early childhood’ examines the status, trends, inequities and drivers of child food poverty in early childhood.

Electronic Ed.

ELR 3036

eng

MON-129684