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Global food, hunger challenges projected to increase mortality, disability by 2050

Global food, hunger challenges projected to increase mortality, disability by 2050 ANI | Updated: May 20, 2021 20:15 IST Washington [US], May 20 (ANI): A new study shows that climate change will increase the challenge of meeting the nutrition and food needs of a growing population, especially in Africa south of the Sahara, but policy actions initiated now could help avert this additional burden. The findings by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the USDA s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and RTI International (RTI) published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, indicates that policymakers could counteract at least the impacts of climate change with increased investments in food systems now.

Fighting hidden hunger in Zimbabwe

By Patrice Talla, FAO Subregional Coordinator for Southern Africa A food systems approach promotes biofortified vitamin A orange maize. ©FAO 19/05/2021 19 May 2021, Harare – Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children globally and an important contributor to the burden of night blindness in pregnant women and severe illness and death in children under the age of five. Southern Africa is not spared.  In Zimbabwe, nearly one in five children under the age of five are vitamin A deficient. Micronutrient deficiency, also known as hidden hunger, is a result of consuming on a day-to-day basis a diet composed mostly of starchy staples. In Zimbabwe, rural diets mainly consist of what farming families can grow, which is predominantly white maize. However, white maize is high in starch and very low in nutritional value.

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