Food and nutrition security: While policymakers are adapting food security programmes to current needs, it is also crucial to consider the ‘hidden hunger’ among populations, especially among those with special dietary and nutritional requirements like pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls and children.
Tackling this malnutrition crisis requires a far-sighted dual approach of providing food that fills stomachs as well as nourishes the body and spirit with nutrients to survive and thrive.
The disruptions caused by the pandemic have further emphasized the need for local nutritious foods and community-based initiatives to tackle food and nutrition insecurity.