Headline : Climate Change, Insecurity Exacerbating Nigeria‘s Malnutrition Burden

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With the present state of hunger in Nigeria, many families risk losing their children to Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) or raising generation of children with poor intelligence quotient (IQ) due to malnutrition.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA), food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. 

However, a large percentage of Nigerian families lack physical and economic access to sufficient and nutritious food as UNICEF report indicated that about 14.5 million Nigerians suffer from acute food insecurity while about 12.5 million people are hungry.

This existing burden is exacerbated by agriculture’s extreme vulnerability to climate change, rise in insecurity, high input cost, poverty and other factors.

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