An estimated 1.6 million children are expected to experience
severe acute malnutrition in the Sahel region of Africa, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said that
the Sahel is on lean season which ran from June to August, 2018 nears its
close, latest estimates showed that nearly 6 million people will have been
severely food insecure in this period.
“Of these, almost half – or 2.7 million people – are
pastoralists or agropastoralists. Up to 1.6 million children are expected to
experience severe acute malnutrition,” official FAO press statement made
available to NaijaAgroNet read.
Today, the three UN agency heads, whose organizations are
working in partnership within the UN system-wide support to the Sahel, will
underscore joint efforts aimed at addressing poverty, underdevelopment, the
impacts of extreme weather events and migration - factors that have all
contributed to the region’s critical humanitarian and security situation.
These heads of the Food and Agriculture Organization of theUnited Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development(IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are on official working visit to Niger
on a three-day working visit between 15-18 August 2018, reports NaijaAgroNet.
This visit, NaijaAgroNet
gathered will see these chiefs highlighting regional efforts to address the
critical food and nutrition security situation in the Sahel.
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