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More than a billion Africans cannot afford a healthy diet and close to one in three of the continent’s children are stunted because of malnutrition.
It warns that 78 per cent of Africa’s population – including many living above the extreme poverty threshold – lack the means to eat healthy, compared with 42 per cent at the global level.
One in every five Africans is undernourished – that’s nearly 282 million people, says the report, or a quarter more than before the COVID-19 pandemic. The research indicates that the prevalence of stunting among children under five was 30 per cent in 2022.
The authors expressed hope that the alarming statistics pointing to an “unprecedented” food security and malnutrition crisis will “trigger new momentum for agrifood systems transformation in Africa” to make them more inclusive, resilient and sustainable.
