Children, food and nutrition
Subtitle: growing well in a changing world
Series: State of the world's children, 2019; State of the world's children -- 2019.
Publisher: UNICEF; United Nations Children's Fund, The (UNICEF)
Published: 2020
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9789280650037
Subjects: Malnutrition in children; Children; Nutrition; Statistics; Health and hygiene
Description: Includes bibliographical references.

"For the first time in 20 years, UNICEF's The State of the World's Children examines the issue of children, food and nutrition, providing a fresh perspective on a rapidly evolving challenge. Despite progress in the past two decades, one third of children under age 5 are malnourished - stunted, wasted or overweight - while two thirds are at risk of malnutrition and hidden hunger because of the poor quality of their diets. These patterns reflect a profound triple burden of malnutrition - undernutrition, hidden hunger and overweight - that threatens the survival, growth and development of children and of nations. At the center of this challenge is a broken food system that fails to provide children with the diets they need to grow healthy. This report also provides new data and analyses of malnutrition in the 21st century and outlines recommendations to put children's rights at the heart of food systems."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "October 2019"--Page 2 of cover.

"UNICEF for every child."
Table of contents: title: Introduction: growing well in a changing world; title: Child malnutrition today; title: Feeding a child for life; title: Malnutrition in a changing world; title: Responses to malnutrition; title: An agenda to put children's nutrition rights first.