Child undernutrition is a persistent challenge in arid and semi-arid areas due to low and erratic rainfall, recurrent droughts and food insecurity. In these settings, caregivers face several...
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The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2024 estimated that about 281.6 million people in 59 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...
The overall nutrition situation has improved. There are about 847,000 children under five facing acute malnutrition which is a reduction of about 14.5 percent...
In 2022, 258 million people faced high levels of acute food insecurity, in 58 countries/territories, with available data. This was up from 193 million in 53 countries in 2021...
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...
Highlights: Cooperative membership facilitates female farmers’ access to productive resources. Women farmers are empowered thereby fulfilling African union's agenda 2063. Female...
Highlights: Relationship between farm production diversity and dietary diversity analyzed in Kenya. Small positive association in general, but different partial effects identified. Production diversity...
We investigate the effects of diet diversity on health outcomes indicated by the body-mass index (BMI) of Kenyan women in their reproductive age (15–49 years). We estimate the demand...
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification for Acute Malnutrition (IPC AMN) analysis conducted in July 2023 shows that the situation continues to be critical in general even...
Globally, poor-quality diets are the leading cause of all forms of malnutrition, and the simultaneous occurrence of both under- and overconsumption within the same populations and even within the same...