in keeping the immune system healthy, food is essential for a human being. The United Nations global facts show that in 2020, between 720 million and 811 million persons worldwide were suffering from hunger, roughly 161 million more than in 2019. A staggering 2.4 billion people, reflecting above 30 per cent of the world’s population, were moderately or severely food-insecure, lacking regular access to adequate food; and globally, 149.
In Nigeria, all the indicators of undernourishment, child stunting, child wasting, and child mortality combine to Nigeria’s ranking of 103 out of 121 countries under the Global Hunger Index in 2022. The index indicates that 12.7 per cent of the nation’s population is undernourished, 31.5 per cent of children under five are stunted and 6.5 per cent of under-five children wasted.
To ensure that the 133 million multidimensionally poor Nigerians do not continue to go to bed hungry each day, the government must swiftly reduce the causes and main drivers of hunger crisis such as insecurity and herder-farmers conflicts in rural areas in Nigeria; and launch a national zero hunger policy and food security strategy at all levels of government- federal, state and local.
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