Zero hunger

Secondary School Resources

Why is this important?

• An estimated 821 million people were undernourished in 2017.
• The majority of the world’s hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9 per cent of the population is undernourished.
• Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with the highest prevalence of hunger, with the rate increasing from 20.7 per cent in 2014 to 23.2 per cent in 2017.
• In sub-Saharan Africa, the number of undernourished people increased from 195 million in 2014 to 237 million in 2017.
• Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45 per cent) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year.
• 149 million children under 5 years of age—22 per cent of the global under-5 population—were still chronically undernourished in 2018.

Resources

• Cambodia
• Uganda

Cambodia

Zero Hunger, Cambodia, Secondary

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Zero Hunger, Uganda, Secondary

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