Background Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has one of the highest prevalence of malnutrition among children under 5 in the world. It is also the region most vulnerable to the adverse...
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Climate change's impact on global food security is a pressing concern with profound consequences. Climate change disrupts the global food system through a number of mechanisms including...
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Climate change threatens the lives, health and well-being of children. They are the most vulnerable to its effects, and those who live in low-income communities...
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This report highlights the disproportionate impact of climate change on children in Africa, a region that has contributed minimally to global carbon emissions. It also shows that...
Erratic temperatures and precipitation influence nutrition, human capital investment, and living standards, particularly for children. This study investigates the effect of climate change (changes in the monthly maximum...
The 2022 Global Strategy progress report provides an assessment of the situation of women’s, children’s and adolescent’s health in this third year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Section 1 presents abundant...
Malnutrition levels in Burkina Faso are declining steadily since two decades. Yet, one child out of four is still stunted, totalling nearly one million...
Ethiopia has set ambitious targets to reduce malnutrition and has made considerable progress on reducing stunting among children under five. However, stunting is still...
With almost half of all children under five stunted, Guatemala is not on track to reduce the number of stunted children by 40% in line with the international target for 2025. Among...
One million children under five are affected by stunting in Mali (more than one in four)1 and the number of stunted children is not expected to fall in the coming years...