The nutrition fallout of school closures

Tags

Top Highlights

• COVID-19 has exacerbated the problem of child hunger and malnutrition

• 116 million children

• largest school-feeding programme

• The flagship report of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 , released by the Food and Agriculture Organization in partnership with other UN organisations

• 369 million children globally were losing out on school meals, a bulk of whom were in India.

• serious

• GHI) report

• already far out in terms of achieving the ‘Zero Hunger’ goal,

• COVID-19 and child labour

• International Labour Organization

• UNICEF