The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018: Building Climate Resilience for Food Security and Nutrition The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018: Building Climate Resilience for Food Security and Nutrition

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018: Building Climate Resilience for Food Security and Nutrition

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Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.

Last year’s report showed that the failure to reduce world hunger is closely associated with the increase in conflict and violence in several parts of the world. In some countries, initial evidence showed climate-related events were also undermining food security and nutrition. This year’s report goes further to show that climate variability and extremes – even without conflict – are key drivers behind the recent rise in global hunger and one of the leading causes of severe food crises and their impact on people’s nutrition and health. Climate variability and exposure to more complex, frequent and intense climate extremes are threatening to erode and reverse gains in ending hunger and malnutrition. Furthermore, hunger is significantly worse in countries where agriculture systems are highly sensitive to rainfall, temperature and severe drought, and where the livelihood of a high proportion of the population depends on agriculture.

The findings of this report reveal new challenges to ending hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition. There is an urgent need to accelerate and scale up actions that strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity of people and their livelihoods to climate variability and extremes. These and other findings are detailed in the 2018 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2018
September 11
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
257
Pages
PUBLISHER
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
SELLER
Draft2Digital, LLC
SIZE
15
MB

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