UNICEF warns of risks to global food security

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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that a range of shocks and risks are currently facing food security around the world.

"At the top of the threats to global food security is the war in Ukraine, the struggle of economies to recover from Corona, and the ongoing drought conditions in some countries due to climate change," the United Nations news website quoted UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell as saying in a statement.

"Even before the pressures that the war in Ukraine imposed on food security around the world, conflicts, climate shocks and COVID-19 were having a catastrophic effect on families' ability to feed their children," Russell added, warning that "the world is rapidly becoming a virtual bomb in terms of child mortality that It is preventable and wasting children.”

She pointed out that "despite the increasing levels of severe wasting in children and the high costs of life-saving treatment, global funding to save the lives of children with this problem is also at risk", noting that "at present, about 10 million children (meaning every two out of Three) who suffer from severe wasting on ready-to-use RUTF, which is a more effective treatment for them.”

At least 13.6 million children under the age of five suffer from severe wasting worldwide, causing 1 in 5 deaths in this age group.

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