Abstract
On Jan 12, 2023, five UN agencies issued a call for action on child malnutrition. These agencies (the Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO], the UN Refugee Agency, UNICEF, the World Food Programme, and WHO), pointed out that more and more children were becoming acutely malnourished as a consequence of climate change, conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic, and rising inflation. In the 15 countries worst affected by the food and nutrition crisis, over 30 million children are acutely malnourished, 8 million of whom have severe wasting. Director-General of the FAO, Qu Dongyu, warned that the situation was “likely to deteriorate even further in 2023”. The agencies behind the call for action stated that they were pressing for “decisive and timely action to prevent this crisis from becoming a tragedy for the world's most vulnerable children”.
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