The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says one in four children globally is living in severe food poverty.
Children who migrated from various communities in Katsina seen in the state capital hawking, begging for alms
UNICEF defines child food poverty as children’s inability to access and consume a nutritious and diverse diet in early childhood. The countries are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania and Yemen.
It said though parents and families have a responsibility to feed their children, “severe child food poverty is the result of systems that are failing, not families that are failing”.“But the forces that lead to severe child food poverty – poor food environments, poor feeding practices and household income poverty – are beyond their full control.
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